Stoking the Embers

Stoking the Embers

There's Just Something About Mary

Why does The Blessed Virgin Mary make men and women so hopelessly devoted to her?

Feb 17, 2018
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Some people have a natural gravitas. We’re drawn to them, sometimes beyond our power to control. In the 1998 film, There’s Just Something About Mary, Ted, played by Ben Stiller was pursuing his high school crush, Mary; a woman he thought he was in love with, but later came to realize that he was just fixated on her.   It turns out several people who cam…

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