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This is a rare week. If you are younger than 28, it&rsquo;s the first time you get a chance to live it. If you&rsquo;re under 56, it&rsquo;s only your second opportunity. And if you are sensing the pattern, you can deduce that you have to be at least 84 to have lived through the experience twice already.
				Yes, the number 28 is a dead giveaway. This is a leap year, which means there are 29 days in February instead of 28. And this particular year, Leap Day lands on a Saturday. So despite this still being the year&rsquo;s shortest month you get an extra weekend day. Five Saturdays in February? What&rsquo;s not to like?
				If you were born on Feb. 29, it may mean you get your birthday off without using any vacation time (or in the case of students, without cutting classes. You can also (if you haven&rsquo;t already) join the honor society of leap year babies. Which, according to <a href="https://www.leapyearday.com/honor-society-of-leap-year-day-babi" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">leapyearday.com</a>, has been a real thing since 1997.
				By the way, according to Reader&rsquo;s Digest, the odds of being born on Leap Day &mdash; and thus earning the title of &ldquo;leapling&rdquo; &mdash; are 1 in 1,461. Yet it happened not once but three times to a family in Norway, where the Henriksen&rsquo;s welcomed newborns on Leap Day in 1960, &rsquo;64 and &rsquo;68.
				Tradition says this Saturday is the right time for a gal to propose to a man rather than the other way around, a bit dated as far as gender equality goes, but if it&rsquo;s what you want to do, go for it, Sadie Hawkins (Li&rsquo;l Abner reference that may prompt a Google search if you were born after the comic strip ended in 1977).
				If you&rsquo;re not a comic strip fan, there&rsquo;s an alternative bit of lore regarding proposals by women: St. Brigid of Kildare, who, legend says, got St. Patrick himself to allow women to pop the question Feb. 29.
				This Saturday will also be the feast day of St. Oswald in the Anglo Saxon Church. It earned that honor because, the story goes, he died on Feb. 29, after washing and kissing the feet of 12 poor men in commemoration of Lent, the Christian season of atonement preceding Easter
				Perhaps more meaningfully, or at least more contemporary, Saturday is Rare Disease Day, an effort to raise awareness for diseases that affect fewer than 1 in 2,000 people. Too many ailments fly under the radar for no reason other than rarity, and those who deal with them don&rsquo;t deserve to be forgotten in shadows of more prominent health causes. You can learn more at <a href="https://www.rarediseaseday.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">rarediseaseday.org</a>.
				So consider doing something special on your extra February Saturday. At the very least, if you&rsquo;re a drinker, you can mix yourself a Leap Day Cocktail invented at London&rsquo;s Savoy Hotel in 1927: dash of lemon juice, 2/3 gin, 1/6 Grand Marnier, 1/6 sweet vermouth, shaken and garnished with a lemon peel. According to the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book, &ldquo;It is said to have been responsible for more proposals than any other cocktail ever mixed&rdquo;
				And for a G-rated Leap Day, look up some jokes (or make your own). To get you groaning, here are a few.
				What do athletes wear on Leap Day? Jumpsuits. What kind of music to you listen to on Leap Day? Hip Hop. What do lawyers do on Leap Day? Jump to conclusions.
				Don&rsquo;t worry, the attorneys are used to taking a ribbing. Besides, they get their day every year. Yes, apparently, the second Tuesday of April is Be Kind to Lawyers Day.
				 &mdash; Times Leader

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