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In this modern guide to romance, the social media sensations bring their signature blend of insight and humor to Linda Goodman’s 1978 classic Love Signs to help you find true love.    In Love Signs, Goodman paired each of the twelve signs with one another. Now, Astro Poets: Love Signs updates Goodman’s philosophy to the present day, focusing on the essence of each sign, unencumbered by traditional gender roles and pairings. Avoiding clinical descriptions in favor of poetic narratives of the romantic connections between the signs, Astro Poets: Love Signs examines sign-by-sign how each pairing tackles love together. Charming, accessible, and endlessly relatable, Astro Poets: Love Signs is packed with insight, with cultural references both high and low, with poetry (of course) and a distillation of the essentials of every love pair in the zodiac. 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