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Have I already met my soulmate? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Rosie Wilby

Every day millions of people ask Google life’s most difficult questions. Our writers answer some of the commonest queries
‘Many serial monogamists find that there is a different soulmate for each stage of life.’ Photograph: Tetra Images/Getty Images

If you’re typing “have I already met my soulmate?” into Google, the chances are you’re in a similarly ambiguous emotional place to the one I found myself in six years ago. Had I messed up my sole chance at passionate romantic happiness with “the one that got away”? Would I die alone, rueing that missed opportunity? Or should I settle for a more companionable partnership and a sense of family?

In reality I was, and had always been, surrounded by multiple potential soulmates. Yet

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