Photos of Elmira Maple Syrup Festival, March 28, 2015

Yesterday I made my annual trek to Elmira, Ontario for the maple syrup festival.  It was a sunny but cool Saturday and I enjoyed the festivities.  This year marked the 51st occasion that the town of Elmira has hosted the event, the largest one-day maple syrup festival in the entire world. This year, for the first time, I took the sugar bush tour.  Participants head out to a sugar shack.  They ride part of the way on a school bus and then complete the journey on a hay wagon pulled by a tractor.

sugar shack

making popcorn

INSIDE THE SUGAR SHACK

ANTIQUE SHOW 

There is an antique show at the local hockey arena, the Woolwich Memorial Centre, home of the their Junior B hockey team, Elmira Sugar Kings of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League.  Below are photos of a display of antique cars and an antique fire trucks at the antique show.

JUST OUTSIDE WOOLWICH MEMORIAL CENTRE

THE SIGHTS ALONG ARTHUR STREET, ELMIRA'S MAIN STREET. 

- Joanne

St. Patrick's Day: Toasts, Musings and Special Irish Men and Women

IRISH SAINT PATRICK'S DAY TOAST

Saint Patrick was a gentleman,
Who through strategy and stealth,
Drove all the snakes from Ireland.
Here's to toasting to his health,
But not too many toastings
Lest you lose yourself and then
Forget the good Saint Patrick
And see all those snakes again.




A Happy St. Patrick's Day to one and all and especially to all those who live in the beautiful Emerald Isle.  I don't have any Irish ancestry, but I still celebrate the day.  I always wear green and I always watch The Quiet Man, the 1952 film starring Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne.

ABOUT ST. PATRICK

Likely born on the west coast of Britain, St. Patrick was a 5th century Christian missionary and bishop of Ireland.  His father, Calpornius, was a Romanized Briton who served as a deacon. Although from a Christian family and the son of a deacon, Patrick was not religious in his early years.

Some of St. Patrick's writings, such as the Confessio (Confession) and the Letter to Coroticus, survive.  According the the Confessio, when Patrick was about 16 years old, he was abducted from the villa of his father by Irish raiders.  He was sold into slavery in Ireland and forced to work the land as a sheepherder.  After six years of captivity, he escaped and returned home.

The experience changed him profoundly and he discovered a new sense of spirituality.  After becoming a Christian cleric, Patrick returned to Ireland as a missionary, preaching to many and baptizing many.  He became the revered patron saint and national apostle of Ireland.

The year of St. Patrick's birth and his death are unknown, but he is thought to have died on March 17th, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.

END NOTE

* There is a legend that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland.  This is highly improbable because it is unlikely there were ever any snakes there.  However, the story may be allegorical, a reference to the driving out of evil, with the snake or serpent symbolizing evil.

Here, in no particular order, are my favourite Irish men and women of note.

JAMES JOYCE

James Joyce, Irish novelist and poet
Born: February 2, 1882: Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland
Died: January 13, 1941, aged 58, Zurich, Switzerland

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright
Born: July 26, 1856, Dublin, Ireland
Died: November 2, 1950, aged 94, Ayot St Lawrence, England

U2   

Left to right: Larry Mullen, Jr., Adam Clayton, The Edge, Bono

U2, Irish rock band, formed in 1976

Members: Bono (Paul Hewson), Adam Clayton, The Edge (David Howell Evans), Larry Mullen, Jr.    

BONO

          

Bono (Birth name: Paul David Hewson), musician, songwriter, lead singer of the Irish rock band U2
Born: May 10, 1960, Dubln, Ireland

MAEVE BINCHY

Maeve Binchy (Born Anne Maeve Binchy), Irish journalist, writer, novelist
Born: May 28, 1940 (1939 according to the biography Maeve Binchy, by Piers Dudgeon), Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland
Died: July 30, 2012, aged 73, Dublin, Ireland

MAUREEN O'HARA

Maureen O'Hara (Birth name: Maureen FitzSimons), Irish-American actress
Born: August 17, 1920, Ranelagh, Dublin, Ireland

OSCAR WILDE

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, Irish author, playwright and poet
Born: October 16, 1854, Dublin, Ireland
Died:  November 30, 1900, aged 46, Paris, France

THOMAS MOORE

Thomas Moore, Irish poet, singer, songwriter
Born: May 28, 1779, Dublin, Ireland
Died: February 25, 1852, aged 72, Bromham, Wiltshire, England

JONATHAN SWIFT

Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, writer and cleric
Born: Dublin, Ireland, November 30, 1667
Died: October 19, 1745, aged 77, Dublin, Ireland

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

William Butler Yeats: Irish poet
Born: June 13, 1865, aged 73, Sandymount, Ireland (a coastal suburb of Dublin)
Died: January 28, 1939, Menton, France

May the sound of happy music, and the lilt of Irish laughter, fill your heart with gladness, that stops forever after.


- Joanne

International Women's Day - Ahead of their time: John Stuart Mill and Sir John A. Macdonald

Since today is International Women's Day, I thought it would be interesting to focus on two 19th century men who were ahead of their time in supporting women's rights and upholding the notion of female equality.  One of them was British, the other was a Canadian.  Their ideas regarding the equality of the sexes were truly revolutionary for men of their era.

JOHN STUART MILL

John Stuart Mill

. . . That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes - the legal subordination of one sex to the other - is wrong itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other. The legal subordination of one sex to another - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a system of perfect equality, admitting no power and privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.

- John Stuart Mill 
From The Subjection of Women


John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was an eminent English philosopher and political economist.  He was born in London on May 20, 1806, the eldest son of James Mill (1773-1836), a Scottish philosopher, historian and economist . Mill learned Greek and Latin at an early age and was an extremely precocious child. He was educated under the watchful eyes of his father, a strict disciplinarian, and studied the works of Aristotle, Plato, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith and others.

As a teenager, Mill became a Utilitarian, a follower of the philosophy of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), whose work he greatly admired.  Simply put, Utilitarian holds that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the measure of right and wrong.  Mill argued that the equality of women was beneficial to both males and females and to society as a whole.

In 1851, John Stuart Mill married Harriet Taylor (née Harriet Hardy), a philosopher and proponent of women's rights.  An ardent suffragette, she addressed the issue of domestic violence in her writings. She is best known as the author of  an essay, "The Enfranchisement of Women," published in The Westminster Review in 1859.  "The Enfranchisement of Women" not only put forth the case for giving women the vote, it also argued for "equality in all rights, political, civil, and social, with the male citizens of the community”

Harriet Taylor Mill

Harriet died on November 3, 1858 at Avignon, France.  Her husband's essay, The Subjection of Women, which he composed in 1861, was greatly influenced by her line of thought.  The essay first appeared as a pamphlet in 1869, not long after John Stuart Mill had ended a three-year term as the member of the British parliament for Westminster.

In 1866, while still holding a seat in Parliament, Mill put forward a petition for women's suffrage and on May 20, 1867, he made a plea in the House of Commons for female enfranchisement.

. . . the time is now come when, unless women are raised to the level of men, men will be pulled down to theirs. The women of a man's family are either a stimulus and a support to his highest aspirations, or a drag upon them. You may keep them ignorant of politics, but you cannot prevent them from concerning themselves with the least respectable part of politics - its personalities . . .(Hansard, 822)

In 1868, John Stuart Mill supported the Married Women's Property Bill which called for women, rather than their husbands, to be the legal owners of the money they earned and the property they inherited.  That same year, however, an election was held and Mill lost his seat in Parliament. Still, the Married Women's Property Act became law in 1870.

After leaving public office, Mill had the time to make changes to his early draft of "The Subjection of Women" and his work was published in 1869.  In "The Subjection of Women" he was very critical of the Victorian attitude toward marriage, which he likened to female slavery under the dominance of a husband.
         

With his views on the equality of women and his unwavering support of women's suffrage, John Stuart Mill went against the grain of conventional thinking during the Victorian era.  He bravely challenged the fundamental beliefs of a patriarchal society.  Below is an 1873 caricature of J.S. Mill in Vanity Fair.  The caption reads "A Feminine Philosopher."

SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD

Sir John A. Macdonald

Sir John Alexander Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1815,  When he was a boy, he and his family immigrated to the colony of Upper Canada (present-day Ontario).  They settled in Kingston, where John later opened his own law practice and began a political career as a member of the legislature of Upper Canada.

Macdonald was the leading figure in bringing about Canadian Confederation and on July 1, 1867, he was designated first prime minister of the newly created Dominion of Canada.  In the 1880s, he became an advocate for female suffrage at a time when no country allowed women to vote.
In his book Nation Maker, author Richard Gwyn writes that Sir John A. was "the first national leader in the world to attempt to grant women the vote."  According to Gwyn, Macdonald stated it was "merely a matter of time" before change with regard to women's rights would take place.

In 1883, Sir John put forth the first of three suffrage bills in the Canadian House of Commons. Early in 1885, Macdonald proclaimed, that Canada "should have the honour of first placing woman in the position that she is certain, after centuries of oppression, to obtain."  - that is "completely establishing her equality as a human being and as a member of society with man."  Alas, it was not be because all three bills were defeated.

Indeed, it was not until 1918 (33 years after Macdonald's bold proclamation) that royal assent was finally given to a bill that granted the right to vote in federal elections to all Canadian women 21 years of age and over, provided they were not foreign born and met property requirements in certain provinces.

New Zealand holds the distinction of being the first country to give women the right to vote in 1893, although Sweden allowed conditional women's suffrage between 1718 and 1771 to taxpaying women who were listed as "professionals."  American women won the right to vote in 1920 after the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution.


- Joanne

2015 Oscars Quiz

The 87th Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, February 22, 2015 and will take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California.  As you prepare for the big night, why not challenge yourself and try Number 16's fifth annual Oscars quiz.  There are 10 questions.  Good luck!


NUMBER 16 OSCARS QUIZ 2015

1.  This year, 84-year-old Robert Duvall was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Judge Joseph Palmer in The Judge.  How many Oscars has the veteran actor won in his lengthy career?

A.  Robert Duvall's nomination for The Judge is his seventh nomination, but has never won an Oscar.

B.  To date, he has won three Academy Awards.

C.  To date, he has won one Academy Award.

D.  To date, Duvall has won two Oscars.

E,  To date, he has taken home four Oscars.



2.  Dustin Hoffman has received seven Academy Award nominations, all for Best Actor.  How many Academy Awards has he won, and for which films?

Hoffman

A.  Hoffman has won three Best Actor Academy Awards for his performances in The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy and Kramer Vs. Kramer.

B.  Hoffman has won two Best Actor Academy Awards - for Kramer vs Kramer and Rain Man.

C,  He has won one Academy Award and it was for Kramer vs.Kramer.

D,  He has won four Academy Awards for his performances in Kramer vs, Kramer, Tootsie, Rain Man and All the President's Men.

E,  He has won two Academy Awards - for Midnight Cowboy and Rain Man.



3.  What is the longest film to have ever won the Oscar for Best Picture?

A.  Ben-Hur

B.  Titanic

C.  Gone with the Wind

D.  Mrs. Miniver

E.  Lawrence of Arabia



4.  What year were the Oscars first televised?

A.  1953

B.  1951

C,  1949

D,  1950

E.  1952



5.  Who are the only brother and sister to even win Oscars for acting.

A.  Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty

B.  Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda

C.  Julia Roberts and Eric Roberts

D.  Ethel Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore

E.  No sister and brother combination has ever won Academy Awards for acting.



6. Who was the first actor to refuse an Academy Award for Best Actor?

A.  Marlon Brando

B.  Woody Allen

C.   John

D.   Peter Fonda

E.  George C. Scott



7.  Who is the only Oscar winner whose parents were also Academy Award winner?

A.  John Barrymore

B.  Haley Mills

C.  Liza Minnelli

D.  Vanessa Redgrave

E.   Alan Ladd



8.  Did Robin Williams, who passed away on August 11, 2014, ever win an Oscar during his career?

A.  Yes, he won an Oscar for Best Support Actor for his performance in Good Will Hunting.

B.  Yes, he won an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role in Dead Poets Society.

C.  Yes, he won for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Good Morning, Vietnam.

D.  Yes, he actually won two Oscars - for Fisher King and Good Will Hunting.

E.  No, Robin Williams never won an Oscar



9.   Five British actors have been nominated for acting Oscars in 2015.  Who was the first British actor to win an Academy Award?

A,  Charlie Chaplin

B.  Charles Laughton

C.  Vivien Leigh

D,  George Arliss

E.  Laurence Olivier


10.  True or false: To date, three actors have won Oscars for roles in which they didn't utter a single word?

A.  False.  Four actors have won Academy Awards for portraying characters that did not speak.

B.  False.  No actor has won an Oscar for a role for which they did not speak.

C.  False.  Only one actor has won an Academy Award for such a role.

D.  False   Two actors have won for non-speaking roles.

E.  True.  Three actors have won Oscars for roles in which they didn't utter a single word?

ANSWERS

1.  C

Robert Duvall's Oscar nomination for The Judge is his seventh.  He has won once, at the 56th Academy Awards in 1984.  Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone presented him with the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance as Mac Sledge, an alcoholic country singer, in Tender Mercies (1983).

Duvall other Oscar nominations include Best Actor in a Supporting Role for A Civil Action (1998), Apocalypse Now (1979) and The Godfather (1972).  He was also nominated for Best Actor in Leading Role for The Apostle (1997) and The Great Santini (1979).

Duvall in his Oscar-winning role in Teder Mercies

Duvall's Oscar win in 1984.

2.  B

Dustin Hoffman has won two Oscars for Best Actor - for Kramer vs. Kramer in 1980 and Rain Man in 1989. He was nominated for The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Lenny, Tootsie and Wag the Dog but did not win.


3.  C

To date, Gone with the Wind (1939) is the longest film to have ever won an Oscar for Best Picture. Gone with the Wind clocks in at a whopping 234 minutes. (three hours and 54 minutes) - almost four hours.


4.  A

The first televised Academy Awards show was broadcast on March 19, 1953.  It was held simultaneously at the RKO Pannteges Theatre in Hollywood California and the NBC International Theatre in New York City.  Bob Hope hosted the main ceremony in Hollywood, while actor Conrad Nagel presided over the smaller ceremony in New York City so performers working on Broadway could take part.


5.  D

Ethel Barrymore's Oscar win 1945

Marie Dressler and Lionel Barrymore after winning Oscars in 1931

To date, Ethel and Lionel Barrymore are the only brother and sister to ever win Oscars for acting. Lionel Barrymore won an Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in Free Soul (1931), while Ethel Barrymore won for Best Supporting Actress in None But the Lonely Heart (1944).  She received her Academy Award in 1945.

Note:  Both Shirley MacLaine and Wareen Beatty have won Academy Awards.  Howver, Beatty's Oscar win was in the Best Director category.  He received an Academy Award in 1982 for directing the film Reds.


6.  E

George C. Scott as Patton

In 1971, the late George C. Scott became the first actor to refuse a Best Actor Oscar when he turned down the award for his role as General George S. Patton in the film Patton.  Scott wrote a letter to the Motion Picture Academy in which he stated that he didn't feel comfortable being in competition with other actors.  He was famously quoted as describing the Oscars as a "meat parade."  In 1972, Marlon Brando refused his Best Actor Oscar for The Godfather as a protest against Hollywood's treatment of native Americans.

The first person to refuse any Oscar was American screenwriter Dudley Nichols.  In 1935, Nichols turned down an Academy Award  for his screenplay of The Informer because the Screen Writers Guild of America was on strike against the movie studios at the time. He served as president of the organization in 1937 and 1938

Dudley Nichols

7.  C

To date, Liza Minnelli is the only Oscar winner whose parents (Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli) also both won Academy Awards.  Liza won a Best Actress Academy Award in 1973 for her performance as Sally Bowles in the film Cabaret.

In 1940, Mickey Rooney presented Liza's mother, the great Judy Garland, with an Academy Juvenile Award for her work in 1939 in The Wizard of Oz and Babes in Arms.  Judy was nominated in the Best Actress category for her performances in A Star is Born (1954) and as Best Supporting Actress for Judgement at Nuremberg (1961) but did not win.

Judy was unable to attend the Academy Awards in 1955 when she was up for an Oscar for A Star is Born.  She was in hospital, having given birth to her only son, Joey Luft.  As it turned out, however, Grace Kelly won the Best Actress Award that year for The Country Girl.  In 1962, Rita Moreno received the Best Supporting Actress award for her performance in West Side Story over Judy's in Judgement at Nuremberg.

In 1959, Liza'a father, film director Vincente Minnelli won an Academy Award for directing the movie Gigi.

Liza celebrating her Oscar win

Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in 1940

Vincente Minelli receiving Oscar from Millie Perkins

8.  A

Robin Williams with Oscar for Good Will Hunting in 1998

Robin Williams won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor at the 70th Academy Awards in 1998.  He won for his portrayal of Dr, Sean Maquire, the psychology teacher who helps Matt Damon's character in the film Good Will Hunting (1997).

Williams also received Oscar nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performances in The Fisher King (1991), Dead Poets Society (1989) and Good Morning, Vietnam (1987).


9.  D

George Arliss

George Arliss was the first British actor to win an Academy Award.  He won an Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in the 1930 film The Green Goddess.  Arliss was born in London in 1868 and was also the earliest-born actor to win an Academy Award.

By the way, here is a list of the five British actors up for Oscars in 2015:
The nominees for Best Actor in a Leading role include Eddie Redmayne as Steven Hawking in The Theory of Everything and Benedict Cumberbatch for his role as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game. The nominees for Best Actress in a Leading Role include Rosamund Pike as Amy Elliott-Dunne in Gone Girl and Felicy Jones as Jane Wilde Hawking in The Theory of Everything.  In addition, Keira Knightley has been nominated in the Best Supporting actress category for her performance as Joan Clarke in The Imitation Game.


10.  E

It is true that three three actors have won Oscars for roles in which they didn't utter a single word. They are Jane Wyman, Johnny Belinda (1948); Sir John Mills, Ryan’s Daughter (1970); Holly Hunter, The Piano (1993).  In Johnny Belinda, Jane Wyman plays a deaf/mute  woman who is raped. In Ryan's Daughter, Sir John Mills plays Michael, a mentally impaired man, the so-called "village idiot."  In The Piano, Holly Hunter plays Ada McGrath, a woman who has not spoken since she was six years old, and no one knows why.

Jane Wyman in Johnny Belinda

John Mills in Ryan's Daughter

Holly Hunter in The Piano

- Joanne

Valentine's Day 2015: Is there love at first sight?

Whoever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare
- From As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 5

The above line comes from the Shakespearean comedy As You Like It and the words are spoken by the shepherd Phoebe.  In a case of mistaken identity, Phoebe falls in love with Rosalind who is disguised as man named Ganymede.  Phoebe's comment about love at first sight appears in quotations in the text of the play because its original source is the Christopher Marlowe's poem Hero and Leander.  It is Shakespeare's tribute to Marlowe, a man who greatly influenced him.  Below is an excerpt from Marlowe's Hero and Leander.

It lies not in our power to love or hate,
For will in us is overruled by fate.
When two are stripped, long ere the course begin,
We wish that one should love, the other win;

And one especially do we affect
Of two gold ingots, like in each respect:
The reason no man knows; let it suffice
What we behold is censured by our eyes.
Where both deliberate, the love is slight:
Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?                              

Christopher Marlowe was a playwright and poet in Elizabethan England.  He was born in 1564, the same year as William Shakespeare, and was mysteriously murdered in 1593.   His poem expresses the idea that "fate" overpowers "will" in determining matters of love.  It's the notion that love is written in the stars and that we have no control over it

Shakespeare also explores the same notion in Romeo and Juliet.  Remember that Romeo and Juliet are known as the "star-crossed lovers." Juliet would have preferred not to fall in love with Romeo, a Montague, the only son of her worst enemy. In Act 1, Scene 5, when her nurse reveals Romeo's identity to her, she is mortified.  She declares the following:

My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.

Shakespeare's Juliet feels it is too late to escape the fate of falling in love with the son of her mortal foe.  It cannot be undone.  It is her unalterable destiny.  Romeo, for his part, is immediately becomes lovestruck too, with a person he is supposed to hate.

As St. Valentine's Day nears, it seems appropriate to ponder the question of whether there is indeed true love at first sight.  Can we, like the star-crossed lovers, gaze across a crowded room and instantly lock eyes with our soulmates?

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore . . .

“Colpo di fulmine. The thunderbolt, as Italians call it. When love strikes someone like lightning, so powerful and intense it can’t be denied. It’s beautiful and messy, cracking a chest open and spilling their soul out for the world to see. It turns a person inside out, and there’s no going back from it. Once the thunderbolt hits, your life is irrevocably changed.” 

- J.M. Darhower
From Sempre

Ah, the lightning!  The flame! The fireworks!  "Love at first sight" is an extremely romantic notion. It is also a very attractive concept.  Think of all the novels and films that have depicted that moment when a couple's eyes meet for the first time - but is that really love?  I don't profess to have all the answers, but I tend to believe that "love at first sight" is really an undeniable connection or an attraction.  It is certainly intense.  It can be more than a physical attraction and it can often develop into true love,. That. however, takes time and nurturing. "Love at first sight" may be the basis for romantic comedies and fairy tales. Real life, however, is quite different.

Sometimes we have a very negative impression of someone at first sight.  Sometimes there is immediate conflict between two persons.  Yet when the ice thaws, they fall in love.  Perhaps that is part of the concept of  the fine line between love and hate.

There is not always a lightning bolt.  Less often, love develops between two people who don't have any strong feelings for each other when they first meet.  Somehow, over time, a flame ignites and they begin to see each other in a different light.


Here are some other ruminations concerning "love at first sight."

People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely to fall for each other than people who meet anywhere else.

- Jennifer E, Smith
From The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight



The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

- Israel Zangwill (1864-1926), British humorist  and writer 


You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what had not yet ever been seen is devoured by the eyes: the scene consecrates the object I am going to love. The context is the constellation of elements, harmoniously arranged that encompass the experience of the amorous subject . . .

- Roland Barthes (1915-1980), French literary critic, philosopher
From A Lover's Discourse: Fragments


Barthes interest in photography is evident in this second quote on "love at first sight" from A Lover's Discourse: Fragments.

Love at first sight is always spoken in the past tense. The scene is perfectly adapted to this temporal phenomenon: distinct, abrupt, framed, it is already a memory (the nature of a photograph is not to represent but to memorialize) . . . this scene has all the magnificence of an accident: I cannot get over having had this good fortune: to meet what matches my desire.

- Roland Barthes (1915-1980), French literary critic, philosopher
From A Lover's Discourse: Fragments 


In closing, I'll leave you with this thought.  I came across these words from an unknown source:

What's so remarkable about love at first sight?  It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

Number 16 Reader's Poll

Do you believe in love at first sight?

Type your answers here

Yes, absolutely. I happens all the time.

No, it's a myth.

It may be possible.

Don't know

Poll Maker

- Joanne