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Sadly this couple was divorced when this article went to press
It's Valentine's Day again, which means that somewhere out there my ex-boyfriend is gearing up to dye his pubic hair pink and surprise some lucky lady by declaring, "Here's your gift." The current boyfriend has an uncanny knack for making me fall in love with a holiday I always thought was cutesy and cliché. Because I'd rather eat deep-fried kitten than spend the day watching Reese Witherspoon romantic comedies, we've kept things fun with horror flicks, greasy diner food, and unabashed sexual indulgence. But if you're more of a candy hearts and eskimo kisses kind of person, here's some fun love facts to cozy your heart with:
*One in five long-term love relationships began with one or both partners being involved with others.
*In medieval Italy kisses weren't taken—or given—lightly. If a man and a woman were caught embracing in public they could be forced to marry.
*Harvard University studies show that, when domestic differences arise, it's usually the spouse who does the most talking who gets their way.
*Husbands who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don't.
*The longest kiss listed in the Guinness Book of World Records lasted a lip-numbing 417 hours!
*Consumers spent an average of $77.43 on Valentine's Day gifts last year.
*It's reported that more than 10,000 marriages per year are directly traceable to romances that began during coffee breaks.
*A group of anthropologists returning from New Guinea said they noticed that a lot of elderly natives there had missing fingers. Research revealed that it was the custom some years ago for a young fighting man to give his lucky girlfriend a finger cut from the hand of an opponent. His girlfriend then wore that finger on a string around her neck.
*Verona, the Italian city where Shakespeare's fictional lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters every year sent to Juliet on Valentine's Day.
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