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Last May I took a trip up to Alaska

to go grizzly hunting.

And I was 130 miles north

of the Arctic Circle

on horseback for two weeks.

And it was just me, my guide

and my wrangler.

So we were riding along

and we had to cross this river.

And it was late spring,

so the water was very very high

and very very cold.

There were big chunks of ice

in the river

and it was freezing.

So anyway, we were crossing

this river

and I almost made it

to the other side

when my horse lost its footing

and rolled,

and me and the horse

went down the river.

The water was moving

really really fast.

It overtook me

and it held me under the water

for a good 30 seconds...

And I remember it being

very serene,

a very pretty color.

And I was just floating there,

like in space.

And I was saying to myself,

"I can't die like this.

This isn't the way to go."

And then all of a sudden

I saw Sarah's face...

my ex-wife.

And she didn't say anything to me.

She didn't look at me.

And that's when I started

reaching for it

and I power-swam to the top

and popped out of the top

of the river,

grabbed onto a little branch

and got out.

And my guide had

a big bonfire going.

And I'm here to tell the story,

so obviously I survived.

But the point of the story is

that the love from that marriage

was still there.

And when I came home

I told Sarah the story

and she said that she was

sitting there

working on her computer,

and that's the profile

I would have seen

of her just sitting there

at her desk.

And like I was saying before

about the one true love

that might have been,

I didn't see her face

when I was almost dying,

but it was Sarah's face

that I saw.

So going back and looking at that,

maybe she was

the true one love.

And I guess

I'll just never know.

So what's gonna be

your opening question?

"What's your name?"

Hello, Charlyne. I'm Professor Bill Hase

of Texas Tech University.

Hi.

Let's talk about

what love is first.

Love is, I guess,

an affection towards somebody

and it's a feeling

that's a pleasant feeling.

And chemists would say

that something's being triggered

in terms of molecules interacting.

- In my brain?

- In the brain.

Yeah, love is not here,

even though we have it there... the heart.

It's actually going on

right up here.

The biochemist, or the anatomist

and physiologist

would say things like,

"Well, as we fall in love, we know,

we've recorded

that there's additional serotonin release

in neurons in the brain.

We know that there's endorphins

that help us to feel better."

And we feel this euphoria

when we're falling in love.

In fact, sometimes so much so,

it's almost similar

to a drug-induced sort of state

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