in the 1980's, 1880's, 1780's, 1680's, ...
there were books on stalking they called them LOVE STORIES
it was called wooing (carooning, and pen-pal, and ... many things) - asking a girl more than once for a date (now illegal). in the say 1600 if a marriage wasn't arranged (way out in farmsville) or what a girl might have several guys wooing, competing, and she'd give them "fair chance", so the books read. and even Kings did it - not in stories for real.
at the end of the story the person stalking alwasy won the heart and they lived happily ever after
except in the italian versions! at the end they always died - all of them
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