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    Galentine's Day: Why the appeal of 'ladies celebrating ladies' endures

    Feb 13, 2018 4 minutes

    Holidays made up by TV shows may come and go, but today marks one that hasn’t lost its appeal: Galentine’s Day.

    “What’s Galentine’s Day?” exclaims Leslie Knope, the cheerful main character from the NBC sitcom “Parks and Recreation,” in Season 2. “Oh, it’s only the best day of the year!”

    Eight years after that episode first popularized the idea, celebrations of women’s friendship are taking place across the United States on and around Feb. 13. While the bubbly Ms. Knope (played by Amy Poehler) and her friends shared gifts and stories over breakfast, today’s festivities are held in museums

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