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The Love Hypothesis - Deep Dive - Part 1

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Show Notes

Join Amanda and Antonia as we deep dive The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood. This coverage will be split into two parts where we will be covering the whole book. In this episode, we are gushing over Olive and Adam’s love story, Anh the chaos demon, and Tom the walking red flag. If you also fell in love with this love story, we’d love for you to join us!

Quick note, we will swear throughout.

Chapters 00:00 The Love Hypothesis - Part 1 Intro 01:20 First Impressions 04:04 The Meet Cute 14:58 Anh - The chaos demon 17:50 Adam - The best Grumpy x Sunshine 20:46 Fake dating starts 24:17 Adam - Nice vs Kind 29:27 Olive and Adam - why they aren’t problematic 41:19 Nothing happens without Anh 43:18 The unnecessary message 50:17 Olive - The amazing woman she is 53:23 We love a good cliché 55:16 Tom - The subtle red flags

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