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Welcome to Defamer Answers, where we utilize the amazing interactive features of the internet to respond to your questions about life in Hollywood. Today, we answer this seemingly rhetorical offering from a reader confused by Jake Gyllenhaal and Kirsten Dunst's insistence on appearing together at area restaurants and supermarkets, despite a public break-up:

I spotted Jake and Kirsten at the Whole Foods on Santa Monica and Fairfax on Sunday night. People who are broken up do not go shopping together, right?

This is a tough one. You see, in the "real world," once a couple's publicists confirm the dissolution of a relationship, the newly-single parties generally want nothing to do with each other. People divvy up the kids and the house and go their separate ways. In Hollywood, things are rarely so tidy.

By the time public confirmations of a break-up surface in assorted gossip rags, the couple in question have already been sowing their oats for weeks in the bathrooms of industry parties, night club VIP areas, and their aptly-named "four-banger" trailers on the set. So even though we're stunned by the news that things weren't so rosy in Jake and Kirsten Land, they've been doing their own thing (and other people's things, etc) for a while, and may have temporarily exorcised their lusty, novelty-seeking demons. The upshot: We're treated to sightings of the pair cozily eating brunch and shopping for healthy food, while we read strange interviews about how even a healthy appetite for public sex wasn't enough to save the relationship.

Did we answer the question? Let's put it this way: They're just a couple of horny, young millionaires at the height of their sexual powers let loose in a town designed to indulge their every whim while they work out their intimacy issues. Who can't relate to that?

Thank you for not asking why Bruce Willis continues to hang around with Demi and Ashton. We really won't have the time to explicate that bafflingly passive-aggressive response to the mockery of their former marriage until after the murder trial.