Unrequited love is a term that is used when one person has strong feelings towards another that are not reciprocated. Unrequited love has been the subject of many books, films and television programs. The person to whom these feelings are directed at may not even be aware that they are the object of someone's affection. However, most people become aware of mismatched affections.(http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-unrequited-love.htm)
Unrequited love has a long cultural history.The 1st century BC Roman poet Catulllus wrote about his unrequited love for Lesbia in several of his Carmina.Abraham Cowley wrote of the emotion (in "Anacreontiques: Or, Some Copies of Verses Translated Paraphrastically out of Anacreon"):
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