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Love is an Antigen

3 min readSep 2, 2024

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Love is an Open Door from Frozen

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For a basic, fairytale crib sheet on T-cell activation/maturity, see below.

T cell (T): Okay, can I just say something naive?
Dendritic cell (D): I love naive!

T: All my life has been a series of mismatched antigens
And then suddenly I bump into you

D: I was thinking the same thing! ’Cause like
You’ve been searching your whole life to find the right match
And maybe it’s cytokines talking or the taste of the lymph

T: But with you
D: But for you
I found your match
T: I feel your signal
And it’s nothing like I’ve ever known before!

T + D: Love is an antigen!
T: Love is an antigen!
D… Antigen!
T: Love is an antigen, from you!
D: For you!
T: From you!
D: For you!
T + D: Love is an antigen

T: I was so naive
D: Yes!
T: You stimulate my…
D: Receptors!
T: That’s what I was gonna say!
I’ve never met someone who could co-stimulate me like this!
D + T: Bind…

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Third Contact
Third Contact

Written by Third Contact

Schroedinger's science - I take it seriously and not seriously. Open the box to decide (cat not included).