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love to death #1 (permalink) Sun Nov 28, 2010 5:57 am   love to death
 

hello every one.

what does it mean?

I really love her to death.
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love to death #2 (permalink) Sun Nov 28, 2010 9:29 am   love to death
 

As an idiom "to love someone to death" is figurative and not literal.

It indicates that you feel very strong affection for someone, to the point of over-indulgence or excess.
Any attempt to parse this literally, will only dead-end. so, do not parse it to death.
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