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In Ray Bradburys A Story About Love, a young man in his 30s, Bill Forrester takes up the acquaintance of an elderly woman, Helen Loomis who is in her 90s. They meet in an ice cream shop and Bill tells Helen that he was in love with her once. She doesnt know what this means. Helen invites Bill to join her the next day. Bill goes to Helens on a daily basis and she tells him stories about far out places that she has traveled to. In their minds, they are able to travel to these places together. Bill eventually tells Helen what he meant when he said that he was in love with her once. He had seen her record in the newspaper and thought she was pretty. He was going to attend a ball that she was at but found out that the picture was many years old and she was actually an older woman. T...