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Readers Share Messages of Love Happy St. Valentine’s Day 2024!

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36 questions designed to help you fall in love

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Most people may think falling in love is a complicated, and time-consuming thing to do. You have to go on at least a couple dates before you know if you’re falling in love, right?

Well, in 1997 a psychologist named Dr. Arthur Aron at Stony Brook University in New York tried to debunk that thought. He aimed to show that two people could develop intimacy at a much faster rate.

Aron conducted a study titled Ther Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness: A Procedure and Some Preliminary Findings in which he took one heterosexual man and one heterosexual woman and gave them a list of 36 increasingly personal questions to ask each other, all finished off with four minutes of...

The history behind Valentine’s Day

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Nowadays, Valentine’s Day is full of flowers, cards, and heart-shaped candies. But before all of that, it may have been a Pagan holiday that was then “stolen” by the Christians.

 



A PAGAN HOLIDAY

Some historians believe that Valentine’s Day was placed in the middle of February in an effort to “Christianize” the Pagan celebration of Lupercalia.

Celebrated at the Ides of February, or Feb. 15, Lupercalia was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus.

To begin the festival, members of the Luperci, an order of Roman priests, would gather at a sacred cave where the infants Romulus and Remus...

Bluray/DVD Roundup for February 2, 2024

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Welcome back to another look at highlights arriving on Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD and DVD. It’s another busy edition with plenty of selections in a wide variety of genres. So, if you can’t make it out to the movies this week, be sure to give one of these titles a try!

BIG NEW RELEASES!



EILEEN: Set in the 19960s, this story follows a lonely young woman who works at a juvenile detention center. When the facility hires a stylish psychologist, the lead is surprised when the new arrival befriends her. The youngster is charmed and their relationship grows closer as time passes. But not long after, the mysterious woman reveals a dark and potentially sinister secret that threatens more than...

Scrambled’ takes a humorous approach to a stressful subject

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Rating: 3 out of 4

Running Time: 97 minutesThis picture from Lionsgate opens exclusively at theaters in Albuquerque and other markets on Friday, Feb. 2.

For many, it is getting more and more difficult to have a baby. Having a busy life that includes juggling a career, finding the right partner, financial concerns and many other issues can push starting a family into the background. That is, until age and other health complications can force a decision into a priority. To some degree the stressful subject hardly seems the source of hilarity, but Scrambled attempts to tackle this subject with a humorous bent.

Nellie Robinson (Leah McKendrick) is a cash-strapped, 34-year-old woman who...

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