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fact, even the most stable couples tried it, and when most of them learned about their incompatibility, they broke up to find harmony in his complementary aura.
    Those who were enrolled in matrimonial agencies, moved their applications to the long waiting lists to perform an aura analysis in private clinics.
    Health insurances flatly refused to pay the expense of a aura analysis, what it deems a medical expense, even though sociological studies affirmed that a country of people in love and visibly happier, would lower the risk of many other diseases that come from stress, anxiety and depression.
    But it wasn't that simple. There were people who could not locate an additional aura easily, and sometimes, to find a mate, had to go to Germany, Canada or anywhere in the database that had located the proper aura, although that added some romanticism over the meeting. But usually, in cities like Madrid or Barcelona, it was possible to find someone compatible, because usually there were several auras harmonizable per person. Thus, many even could choose among several candidates or candidates, as appropriate.
    The meetings were very strange and exciting. Special places were arranged, so when a person was about to finally meet the ONE, would feel at ease. Several psychologists would prepe them talking first about what the other person was like, next a photograph of the other was showed, and then they were invited to speak and hear each other voices through an audio device. When at last the two were face to face, the air seemed to release sparks. The surprises were constant, the theory of love put together people who would never have looked to each other on the street. Dr. Morehouse said that that happened, because we usually make an image of the person we would like to have on our side, but that image does not usually concur with what we really need, that's why until then so many couples had failed. Dr. Morehouse said also that often the first stages of cohabitation among compatible people were not always to be idyllic, but rather the contrary. Sometimes the socioeconomic and cultural differences were huge, and they had to adapt. If a person had more than a complementary aura, the database would decided by choosing the closest one to the applicant in the social scale. But when faced with problems, couples seemed to fight for their relationship in a way that has never been seen before, despite the drawbacks and differences arising everywhere. A few fell apart, but it was a bitter situation that occurred in isolated cases, and with any luck, they tried again in another compatible person's aura.
    The church, which originally had maintained a skeptical attitude, when it saw that couples were stabilized and created families, wisely stopped and turned to consecrate marriages right and left.
    In a talk show a philosopher argued: since man lost his faith in God to find it in science, marriages are again what they were hundreds of years ago, an unbreakable bond. Before they were arrangements between families, now it's decided by a dumb machine. 
     

This is not happening to me

    When the subway car doors opened, Rafa stepped out pushed by the maelstrom of squashed people, usual these early hours. A few meters he got to the bottleneck formed before the escalators. Despite the neat and pleasant appearance of all those people who were going to work in the business area of the city, their behavior resembled rather to savages.
    Suddenly he saw his friend Antonia standing still against the wall. The strength of the human stream  had pushed her to a corner from which it was impossible to access the escalator. With dozens of people flowing against him, Rafa fought against the tide trying to approach her. Antonia's eyes were wide open, showing her terror, and as they met Rafa's eyes, they were filled in tears.
    When he finally arrived, they hugged each other without saying a word. Rafa embraced her with his arm, made his way through the crowd and