Pop Quiz: Can You Fall In Love With A Fictional Character?

In this segment of "Pop Quiz," Newsy's "In The Loop" dives into whether or not you can fall in love with a fictional character.

In 1955, a woman by the pseudonym of "Miss A" wrote in asking for advice about a crush. 

The response was: "I don't know what you learned in college, but you are flunking the course of common sense. You have fallen for a piece of celluloid as unreal as a picture on the wall." 

One year later, that advice column was published again in an academic paper that coined the phrase "parasocial relationship," which was defined as a "seeming face-to-face relationship between spectator and performer."