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In the movies they call it a “meet cute.”
The beautiful ingénue drops her stack of papers and bumps heads with a stranger as they both kneel to pick up the mess.
They look up and their eyes meet.
A relationship, and the plotline of many a romantic comedy, is born.
Meeting our loved ones for the first time is usually not as adorable, simple or extraordinary as television and the silver screen depicts those moments.

To stand in the front of the dilapidated remains of Bryant’s Grocery Store in Money, Miss., is more than a bit sobering when you know the history associated with the structure.
It was at this store in 1955 that a young black boy from Chicago stepped into the middle of his own horror story, unwittingly becoming a symbol and a catalyst for the period of American history commonly referred to as the Civil Rights Era.

Sand Spring Baptist Church recently announced it will host its 2014 Beast Feast on Saturday, Feb. 22 after canceling the event last year because of a lack of meat.
Last year’s feast was cancelled because there weren’t enough meat donations, organizers said.
The Beast Feast program is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. in the new sanctuary. The program will begin by immediately serving food following a speaker presentation and distribution of door prizes.

A 9-year-old fourth grader at Robert B. Turner Elementary says she’s scared to come back to school after learning about a message threatening her life scrawled on the girls’ bathroom wall, according to her grandmother.
Lawrenceburg resident Belinda Meece, the fourth grader’s grandmother and her guardian, said she was notified about the message, “Kill (the 9-year-old’s first name),” last Wednesday.
According to Meece, a Turner Elementary janitor took a photo of the message with his phone before it was later erased.