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Flickr Files: Kisses For V-Day

Article or RSS item submitted by Ty Wenzel • Feb 9th, 2009 • Category: Featured, Flickr Files, General, Mama Ty's Personal Baggage |

It's a simple formula. A sincere kiss makes the recipient smile. It makes them happy. It's free, it's pleasurable and it's easy. You can be straight, gay, bi, black, white, purple or green. You can kiss your dog, your baby, your lover. It's all good.

So I set about finding some of the most poignant and beautiful photos that shows the simple power of the kiss. None of us do it enough. All of us should do it more. So for pre-Valentines Day inspiration, here is my Flickr Files post of the week: Kisses for V-Day:

And my all-time favorite kissing scene will always be the final scene of Cinema Paradiso, when the hero is older now. He is seated in his personal movie theater (he's a famous director now) and his employer, Alfredo, from his boyhood years has passed away and left him a little present. A film reel. Upon watching it, he realizes it is the splicing together of all of the kissing scenes that the church made his little village theater cut out of all the films they showed through the decades. At the end of the film, I just cry and cry. This is the perfect valentines day movie. Watch it with someone you love. And keep the kleenex handy!