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A woman is walking down the street talking loudly to herself, gesturing dramatically, shaking her head. I'm sitting at an outdoor restaurant watching. My first thought-- uh oh-- here comes a nut. Then I see a man walking a few feet behind her. He's looking at the back of her head very intently. I wonder "what's *he* doing, staring at her like that?" Suddenly she plunks herself down at a table near me. The man sits down across from her and she goes on talking-- to him. I realized that in seconds I've thought three entirely different things about these people, two of them dead wrong She's a nut. He's a stalker. Oh it's okay-- they're a *couple*.