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Valentine’s Day competition winners found

Almost 2000 entries were received for FPA’s Valentine’s Day competition and the two lucky national winners have been found.

A Valentine’s Day lunch break in Cashel Mall proved to be a lucky break for Christchurch woman Alice Lines who has won an Air New Zealand mystery weekend for her entry - “Love is being totally happy with your own being so you can share your life with someone else.”.

First-year Otago University student Brie Edwards-Adams topped the class with her entry -  Love is Fire, Passion, Adventure”. Brie says the F, P and A was a direct link to the Family Planning Association but without fire she believes there is no passion and with both these things adventure is inevitable. Brie’s prize is an 80GB iPod to tune into on her way to accounting and psychology lectures. Both prizes were possible due to sponsorship support from Durex.

Family Planning Association chief executive Jackie Edmond says the two winning entries were selected from almost 2000 entries nationwide because they best reflected what the organization was trying to achieve from its Valentine’s Day promotion – to get people to reflect on the health and wellbeing of their special relationships.

“Valentine’s Day is a wonderful opportunity for people in relationships to take some time and reflect on their own loving relationship and what makes it so special – it’s a perfect opportunity  for people to do an annual health check on their relationships,” Ms Edmond says.

“FPA promotes a positive view of sexuality, informed choice, access to accurate information, and quality sexual and reproductive health services. Opportunities such as Valentine’s Day allow us to celebrate the commitment, the caring, the resilience – all the elements that make for a loving relationship.”

Other entries gaining an honourable mention were:

Love is when your partner knows what you’re saying when you’ve said nothing. (Female, age 28)

Love is a balloon that never pops. (Female, age 28)

Love is when someone makes you smile without doing anything! (Female, age 22)

Love is six kids. (Male, age 52)

Love is the magic of minds and bodies mingling. (Male, age 33)

Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye opener! (Male, age 62)

Love is in the eyes of a child. (Female, age 38)

Love is whanau, friendship. It is about sharing, caring, supporting, acceptance. It is eternal and best of all it is free. (Group of students, ages 13 to 15)

Love is hard to explain abut easy to feel. (Male, age 20)

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