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Get Over It

If you enjoy holidays that are celebrated on a bar stool, mark March 9 on your calendar. It's the second annual Get Over It Day.

“Not getting into the college you wanted, losing a job - everybody’s got something to get over,” said [Jeff] Goldblatt, 29, who came up with the concept in 2005 while recovering from a difficult breakup. “Everybody’s got to say, it’s time to move on, get over it.”

It’s a make-your-own holiday in which participants devise their own, sometimes vindictive, traditions. A group of young women in New York last year burned photographs of their ex-boyfriends in a bonfire, inspiring Goldblatt to create an animated fire pit on the [holiday's] Web site. Complaints lodged in the pit range from the trivial (“I lost my favorite red stapler”) to the political (“the government is stupid and nonsensical”) and the tragic (“my father passed away”), with each injustice satisfyingly churned into the flames.

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