A Collection of Kisses
Mar 27, 2012 | 20, Atlantic Monthly
One of the most intimate human gestures, a kiss can convey greetings, give comfort, express joy, and above all, show love. Gathered from news photos over the past few months, this collection of kisses features playful moments, emotional reunions, public displays of affection, and some pure expressions of love. [37 photos]

A
tourist poses for a picture with the Sphinx at the Pyramids of Giza in Cairo,
Egypt, on October 19, 2011. (Reuters/Jamal
Saidi)

Actress Claire Danes
is kissed by President of Hasty Pudding theatricals James Fitzpatrick (left) and
Cast Vice President Ryan Halprin, both dressed in drag, as Danes is honored as
the "Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year" at Harvard University in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 26, 2012. (Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi)
#



Couples participate
in a kissing contest in Hefei, Anhui province, China, on February 18, 2012. A
total of 63 couples took part in the contest in which men must hold their
partners off the ground while kissing, trying to last as long as possible. The
winner was awarded a 1-carat diamond ring, local media reported.
(Reuters/Stringer) #



Veterinarian Livia
Pereira kisses paralyzed lion Ariel who she is caring for in her home in Sao
Paulo, Brazil, on July 13, 2011. An Internet and Facebook campaign was launched
in Brazil to obtain funds needed to treat the lion that had been paralyzed for
the past year. The campaign was launched by Raquel Borges, the owner of Ariel, a
three-year-old, 310 pound (140 kilogram) lion that was unable to use his four
legs due to a degenerative disease affecting his medulla. Ariel was unable to
recover, and passed away a couple of weeks after this photo was taken. (AP
Photo/Andre Penner) #



Paraguay's President
Fernando Lugo (seated) is visited by Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula
da Silva as he undergoes medical examinations in a hospital in Sao Paulo,
Brazil, on January 27, 2012. Both Lugo and Lula are undergoing treatment for
cancer. (Reuters/Ricardo Stuckert-Instituto Lula) #



Charles Wolf kisses
the name of his wife Katherine Wolf, a British citizen who died at Ground Zero
during the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center Memorial in New York, on March
15, 2012. He accompanied British Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife
Samantha on their visit to the site. (John Moore/Getty Images) #



Pearl Harbor
survivor James Cook smiles after getting a kiss on the cheek from a member of
the Andrews Sisters-styled group "The Victory Belles" at a ceremony observing
the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor at the National World War II
Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, on December 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Gerald
Herbert) #



A wax figure of
British actor Robert Pattinson at Madame Tussauds in London is kissed by Hayley
Wales. Ladies wore wedding outfits and posed with the waxwork to celebrate the
upcoming film "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1" in which Pattinson's
character, Edward, marries Kristen Stewart's character, Bella, on November 14,
2011. (AP Photo/Jonathan Short) #



Petty Officer 2nd
Class Marissa Gaeta (left), assigned to the amphibious dock landing ship USS Oak
Hill, kisses her partner Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell, following the
ship's return to homeport after a three-month deployment in the Caribbean, in
Virginia Beach, Virginia, on December 21, 2011. History was made on a Virginia
Beach pier on Wednesday when the two women sailors, one just home from 80 days
at sea, became what was believed to be the first same-sex couple to share the
Navy's traditional first kiss. (Reuters/U.S. Navy photo by Mass
Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joshua Mann) #



Sgt. Brandon Morgan,
right, is embraced by his partner Dalan Wells in a helicopter hangar at a Marine
base in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, upon returning from a six-month deployment to
Afghanistan in this February 22, 2012 photo. The photograph, made some five
months after the repeal of the military's "don't ask don't tell" policy
prohibiting gay servicemen from openly acknowledging their sexuality, is among
the first showing a gay active duty serviceman in uniform kissing his partner at
a homecoming. (AP Photo/David Lewis) #



From left to right,
the members of Kiss, Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer, Eric Singer and Paul Stanley
appear onstage, announcing "The Tour", an upcoming Motley Crüe / KISS
co-headlining tour at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, in Los Angeles, California,
on March 20, 2012. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images) #



Thai couples kiss
during a competition for the "World's Longest Continuous Kiss" in Pattaya, on
February 12, 2012. Seven couples took part in the kissing marathon in the hope
of breaking the Guinness world record, also hoping to receive prizes totaling
more than 200,000 Thai baht ($6,666 USD) and a diamond ring. (Pornchai
Kittiwongsakul/AFP/Getty Images) #



A woman kisses a
fish after catching it during an ice fishing competition at the Hwacheon
Sancheoneo Ice Festival on January 7, 2012 in Hwacheon-gun, South Korea. The
annual Hwacheon Sancheoneo (Mountain Trout) Ice Festival attracts millions of
visitors annually who gather to try their luck at ice fishing with traditional
lures or with bare hands. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images) #



Jigmy Tamang, 6, an
injured boy kisses his mother as he awaits medical treatment in a civil hospital
in Gangtok, India, on September 20, 2011. Thousands of survivors of a Himalayan
earthquake that killed many people and shook parts of India, Nepal and China
crowded had crowded into shelters and relatives' homes or stayed out in the open
for fear of aftershocks. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) #



Justin Blackmon #81
of the Oklahoma State Cowboys celebrates by kissing his girlfriend and
cheerleader Mariel Dunlap after the Cowboys won 41-38 in overtime against the
Stanford Cardinal during the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl at University of Phoenix
Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on January 2, 2012. (Donald Miralle/Getty
Images) #



Jane Cosar hugs her
guide dog Cubbe in Lima, Peru, on October 6, 2011. Cosar is a blind lawyer and
former congressional candidate who fights for the rights of blind people using
guide dogs in Peru, where shops, banks, buses and others do not allow the blind
to enter with their guide dogs. (Reuters/Mariana Bazo) #



A woman kisses a
girl looking at tributes at the 't Stekske primary school in Lommel, Belgium, on
March 16, 2012. The memorial was for the victims of the March 13 bus crash near
the town of Sierre in southern Switzerland. Twenty-eight people died in the
accident, including 22 children from two schools in Lommel and Heverlee,
returning to Belgium from a skiing holiday. (Yorick Jansens/AFP/Getty
Images) #


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