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How to Make Anyone Fall in Love with You


Leil Lowndes





CONTEMPORARY BOOKS
A TRIBUNE COMPANY



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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lowndes, Leil.
How to make anyone fall in love with you / Leil Lowndes. p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8092-3211-1
1. Love. 2. Man-woman relationships. 3. Intimacy (Psychology) 4. Sexual excitement. I. Title. HQ801.L69 1996
306.7-dc20 96-14502
CIP

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Excerpt from Obsession:
Copyright © 1995 by Debra McCarthy-Anderson and Carol Bruce-Thomas. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the publisher, Harlequin Books S.A.

Copyright © 1996 by Leil Lowndes
All rights reserved
Published by Contemporary Books
An imprint of NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
Two Prudential Plaza, Chicago, Illinois 60601-6790
Manufactured in the United States of America
International Standard Book Number: 0-8092-3211-1
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To fulfill the promise of the title, How to
Make Anyone Fall in Love with You offers
85 techniques based on scientific studies into the nature of romantic love.


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CONTENTS


1 1
Anyone? Yes, Practically Anyone


Science "Discovers" Sex 2


How More Research Was Compiled 4


How the Techniques Were Developed 5


How I Tested the Techniques 7


2 9
What Makes People Fall in Love? The Six Elements


I. First Impressions 9


II. Similar Character, Complementary Needs 10


III. Equity 11


IV. Ego 12


V. Early-Date Gender-Menders 13


VI. Rx for Sex 14


3 17
The Physical Side of Falling in Love


"Why Do My Insides Go All Funny?" 17


"Does Somebody Have to Be Pea-Brained to Fall in Love with Me?" 17


"Why Do We Fall in Love with One Person and Not Another?" 18


"How Can These Little Things Start Love?" 19






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4 23
Where Are All the Good Men and Women?


Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places 23


5 25
Does Love at First Sight Exist?


Part One: First Impressions You Never Get a Second
Chance at Love at First Sight


6 29
How to Make a Dynamite First Impression


First Impressions Last Forever 29


Be Ready for Love-Always! 30


Stay Psychologically "Fit to Kill" 32