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I can no longer remember when they stopped issuing platform tickets at Bratislava railway station. Platforms entrances used to be guarded by station staff and anyone wishing to go further had to show a platform ticket, even if they were just seeing someone off. The platform tickets were small bits of brown card just like normal train tickets, and they cost sixty hellers, in the old currency. You also had to buy one if you were meeting a train, and you had to show your ticket again as you went out. I have to confess I miss platform tickets. They were a great litmus test.

There are a thousand different definitions of love. It is usually understood to be a raging emotional storm, a period of intense enchantment that, according to specialists – endocrinologists or sexologists – lasts around nine months or, in the case of hormonally better endowed individuals, up to a year. It would be more accurate to speak of infatuation but people who are drunk on emotion are not sticklers for accuracy. For them it’s love from the word go, and even though they are merely infatuated, they are convinced they have found love everlasting.