Story of love in Carmen's wild embrace (7)

I believe the answer is:

romance

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'story' is the definition.
(I know this)

'love in carmen's wild embrace' is the wordplay.
'love in' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis. I am not sure about the 'in' bit.).
'wild' indicates anagramming the letters.
'embrace' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'carmen' anagrammed gives 'rmance'.
'o' going within 'rmance' is 'ROMANCE'.

'of' is the link.

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(Other definitions for romance that I've seen before include "Language group; love affair" , "Feeling of mystery; love affair" , "Make up stories - Menorca (anag)" , "Various languages such as French" , "marriage?" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.

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