“Obviously, we weren’t trying to go out in public,” Jennifer said in the interview. “But I never shied away from the fact that for me, I always felt like there was a real love there, a true love there. People in my life know that he was a very, very special person in my life. When we reconnected, those feelings for me were still very real.”
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