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FRIDAY February 14, 2014 The Central Okanagan’s Best-Read Newspaper www.kelownacapnews.com
Jennifer Smith
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hen Tyler Czuba and Alexandra Kozak pick up the newspaper to find their love story in print, they will be preparing to say, "I do." The young couple met on Facebook, on a fanpage for the professional hockey team he plays for in Miskolc, Hungary. It was "the most likely of places," he contends. Admittedly, for their generation, connecting virtually seems as natural as finding love in a speakeasy would have been for a flapper. Yet the day they have selected to tie the knot is one auspicious square on the calendar. Numerologists believe Valentine's Day 2014 is the best time for nuptials in 600 generations. The explanation is a little complex, but basically the two, as in the second month of the calendar year, represents romance and the 14 is connected to new experiences. In combo, the number 214 is said to reflect an introspective time and this period of inner reflection is also represented by the number 2014, a rare double-whammy of numerological fates not seen for another 18,000 years. Whether one goes in for this sort of mysticism or not, there's no denying Czuba and Kozak have beat the odds to make it down the aisle today. In 2008, London graduate student Peter Backus wrote a paper: Why I Don't Have A Girlfriend. According to Backus, his chances of finding an educated woman he would find attractive without going abroad were 1-in285,000. This meant 26 women in the U.K. qualified. Thankfully for him, the equation for finding love doesn't hinge on impossible quandaries like assigning a numerical value to physical attraction. He was married last May. And as Cupid's arrow does strike more often than lightening, finding a few local love stories to share on this universally romantic day was equally simple. See story on page A3
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