>>Going to sleep next to the one you love? Sounds real enough to me.
>
>I'm not sure I would have called it love at that point,(though
>several arguments could be made on it) but it was definitely a 'deeper
>then friendship' connection.

Well, they certainly think it is at that point, though amusingly for purposes of this discussion, they had just had the "are we really in love, and at this point can we actually be expected to know?" conversation earlier in that same episode. Be that as it may, the point is that there was more to them, as a couple, than just sexual compatibility and teenageness, which I think is what the doubters meant by "not real" back in the day. They aren't the couple from "Life in the Fast Lane" (The Eagles, Hotel California, 1976):

He was a hard-headed man, he was brutally handsome
And she was terminally pretty
She held him up and he held her for ransom
In the heart of the cold, cold city
He had a nasty reputation as a cruel dude
They said he was ruthless, said he was crude
They had one thing in common: they were good in bed
She'd say faster, faster, the lights are turning red

I mean, that is something Asuka would say, but... ;)

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