1.   Bates is intense as the lonely homosexual whose obsessive selfless love is only reciprocated by a dumb animal.

2.   Her love was not reciprocated.

3.   Angelo points out that all the president-sons she studied, starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt, were eternally grateful to their mothers and reciprocated their love.

4.   But she is resurrected when the embodiment of that lover, Liu Mengmei, a young scholar, discovers her portrait and reciprocates her love.

5.   Felice fell for Lilly, and eventually the love was reciprocated.

6.   The kids, all seven of them, are filled with rambunctiousness and effortlessly convince us they reciprocate the love their mother showers upon them.