“She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Variant: She had been in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love, but rather doing something much more ordinary
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