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We have to keep going to see what happens next, remaining open to the possibility that love could end up as fleeting as a material comfort.

It would have annoyed Makram for a fleeting moment but soon South Africa's players were erupting in celebration on the balcony in the home dressing room.

He does this by flashing shiny, fleeting baubles that further his parochial interests, while more consequential matters drift by like a passing cloud, unnoticed – leaving the hard, complex stuff to fade into neglect.

And that fleeting moment when stumbling across each other's profiles on a dating app can be vital, as Ashley and Joe know.

We buy into the fantasy because it gives us a little bit of hope, no matter how fleeting.