The story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" is about two couples sitting around a table drinking and talking about the true meaning of love. While searching for what real love is, the four friends discuss many different types of love; obsessive, platonic, and spiritual.
The couples in the story represent different stages of love. Nick and Laura represent young love, Mel and Terri represent an older cynical or skeptical love and the old couple that Mel talks about from the hospital represent true, unconditional love.
The story ends with darkness and hearts beating. I think the story ends this way because after having a long conversation about love the couples are questioning whether or not they love their partner. A heart is something you associate with love, so since their hearts are beating it shows that they are thinking about love.
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