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Valentine's Day: Telenovelas Prove Their Weight In Romantic Gold (VIDEO)

First Posted: 02/14/2012 8:43 am   Updated: 02/14/2012 9:15 am

¡Feliz Día Del Amor Y La Amistad!

There's a reason Spanish is the most widely spoken Romance language. After all, who else imbues nightly TV with such dramatic, tragic, sordid and enthralling stories of passion, star-crossed lovers, and innocence lost (and found)?

Let's be honest, nothing says romance like a scene where a couple finally embraces -- after surviving the scheming aunt, death threats, kidnappings, ill-conceived love affairs, an avenging gardener, the requisite bastard child who's come back to claim his/her inheritance, the jealous cousin, and the other scheming aunt...

And more often than not, Enrique Iglesias is crooning away during the final scene. This is love. Love. LOVE!

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"Everything about you is clear Paquita, that's what makes me fall in love with you"
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An impossible love, a conniving ex wife, death threats and every cliché in the book, "Yo Amo A Paquita Gallego" ("I Love Paquita Gallego") had everything to make it one of the hit telenovelas of the late 90s.

The Colombian soap opera recounted the tragic love story of Paquita Gallego and Andrés Hidalgo. In this scene, the lovers are exchanging goodbyes because Andrés is travelling to the U.S.

Will he fall in love with a blonde, blue-eyes American girl, Paquita fears. Like a true gentleman, Andrés rejoices in Paquita's jealousness. "Tell me you're jealous, feed my ego," he tells her. Aww, love.

In a true romantic move, Andrés assures her that there's no one he will ever love more than her, because she's "transparent like the clearest of all crystals...from the surface of your eyes I can see to the bottom of you soul... everything about you is clear Paquita, that's what makes me fall in love with you."



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03:31 PM on 02/15/2012
jaja so true!
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