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Does he love you is the question? A boy that lives in the south side of Johannesburg known as Eugene Britou Actually does not love his girlfriend He plans in getting married to 15 women as soon as he turns 20 in June of this year

Game

A person playing the game alternately speaks the phrases "He (or she) loves me," and "He loves me not," while picking one petal off a flower (usually an ox-eye daisy) for each phrase. The phrase they speak on picking off the last petal supposedly represents the truth between the object of their affection loving them or not. The player typically is motivated by attraction to the person they are speaking of while reciting the phrases. They may seek to reaffirm a pre-existing belief, or act out of whimsy.

In the original French version of the game, the petals do not simply indicate whether the object of the player's affection loves them, but to what extent: un peu or "a little", beaucoup or "a lot", passionnément or "passionately", à la folie or "to madness", or pas du tout or "not at all."

A humorous twist on the game is "He loves me, he loves me lots."

In Part 1 of Goethe's Faust, Gretchen engages in the game. (1808)

This fortune-telling is shown as a pantomime in the 1st act of Giselle, ballet by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot (Paris, 1841).

In Part 6 of Anna Karenina, Kitty and Levin play this game (regarding whether another character will propose that day). (1877)

The Decision of the Flower (1820)
This 1904 cartoon by Bob Satterfield depicts the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan using the game to decide whether to go to war with each other.

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