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Brush with fame: The public's one-sided bond with celebrities

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Journalist Jancee Dunn interviewed Stevie Nicks at her California home in 1997 .

Nicks' closet was filled with capes she had worn on stage and platform boots.

Sociologist Kerry Ferris says our excitement over celebrities stems from them embodying things that we want for ourselves.

Psychologists refer to this kind of one -sided relationship as "parasocial".

Jancee Dunn: "Stevie, if you were to invite me over to your house again, I would happily spend the night and clean up in the morning" "Even now, if I'm at the grocery store or the pharmacy, and I hear 'Edge of Seventeen' or one of Stevie 's hits, I get a pain in my heart," she says.

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