Goodreads asked Robin Burks:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Robin Burks My favorite couple is Beatrice and Benedick from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Not only has Beatrice always seemed a very modern woman (especially given the time Shakespeare wrote her), but I love the exchanges between her and Benedick, who seem to hate each other, but soon realize that they are so much alike that they end up falling in love during their machinations throughout the play. Whereas the other couple in the play, Don Pedro and Hero, seem the stuff of the usual fairy tale Romeo & Juliet variety foolish young couple, it's Benedick and Hero that show a more mature love for each other.

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