# What causes the ache in "achingly beautiful"?

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**Created:** [July 14, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-causes-the-ache-in-achingly-beautiful/588961 "2011-07-14T02:16:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-causes-the-ache-in-achingly-beautiful/588961/15 "2011-07-15T19:37:15Z")

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> [@Pornographic Movie Title Parodies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pornographic-movie-title-parodies/70244/17):
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> I suspect this is where the idea of your heart being the center of love came from…

Actually, that is culture-dependent. In the West, since pre-Roman times until the Rensaissance, the organ of the center of love was the liver.

I ::liver:: NY!

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