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1. Love Actually was never intended to be a Christmas film.
2. Richard Curtis called the film's first edit "a catastrophe", and has claimed he was still unhappy with it by the time it hit cinemas.
3. The film originally contained 14 separate love stories, but four of them ended up being cut.
4. Two of these additional storylines were shot before being abandoned.
5. One of them was about an African couple supporting each other through a famine.
6. And the other was about a stern headmistress who was nursing her lesbian partner through cancer.
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