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What are your thoughts on a story with multiple different possible love interests, in which depending on which love interest you choose, the other possible love interests fall in love with very different people?

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Very good, and underutilized. It makes the charactera feel more like people and less like they exist solely for the benefit of the protagonist. It's something I'd like to do myself at some point.
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