Once you get to know someone–no matter who they are–and form some sort of (deep) connection with them, I’m fully convinced you are bound to fall in love.
Many times, this “love is romantic, but it doesn’t have to be. The moment you learn how someone called strawberry milk their “pink drink” in childhood or learn how their father once chased them around a tree after some minor misbehavior, the difference between you in age, background, character, beliefs, etc. means nothing. At this point, you have formed an understanding, however incomplete, of another living, breathing creature. And that is rare.
A connection between two souls, once formed, becomes an unchangeable, immovable love.