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Purge Your Heartbreak With Citris' Grungy 'Driving Me Crazy'

"So in an effort to release hurt feelings, I smoked some weed and wrote 'Driving Me Crazy,'" says Citris' Angelina Torreano (right of center). "Marijuana is a really great asset to breakups as well."

Romance isn't dead, it's just damn hard. We navigate gestures both small and grand like tributaries suddenly rushing into whitewater, and hope to hell that we come out the other side.

Angelina Torreano, the singer and guitarist for the Brooklyn-based Citris, had a particularly intense experience with one of the most old-fashioned romantic moves:

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