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My heart wants love ultimately (3)

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I believe the answer is:

cor

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'my' is the definition.
(both are expressions of surprise)

'heart wants love ultimately' is the wordplay.
'heart' means to look at the middle letters.
'wants' becomes 'lacks' ('lack' can be a synonym of 'want').
'love ultimately' becomes 'or' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The middle letter of 'lacks' is 'c'.
'c'+'or'='COR'

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(Other definitions for cor that I've seen before include "Gosh" , "Blimey" , "Expression of surprise" , "Surprised expression" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Sunday Times.
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