I've had feelings for a friend of mine since we were 5 and no one else has ever come close, a decade ain't shit. I think cases as extreme as mine are exceptionally rare though.
Helps that it was mutual and then we dated for a bit when we were teens so it wasn't a onesided thing you often see in cases like this, but these days whenever we're together we both ignore the elephant in the room and talk around it.
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Also they totally sent them there to encourage them to get a house together, 5d chess, etc.