A Gege marries at the age of 24 or 25, and then he usually, but not always, gives up boy-love.

The following passage is reported by Hahn as the actual language used to him by an Albanian Gege: "The lover's feeling for the boy is pure as sunshine.

It places the beloved on the same pedestal as a saint.
It is the highest and most exalted passion of which the human breast is capable.

The sight of a beautiful youth awakens astonishment in the lover, and opens the door of his heart to the delight which the contemplation of this loveliness affords.

Love takes possession of him so completely that all his thought and feeling goes out in it.