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Sixteen Messiah College men planned a special Valentine’s evening for 16 women from Messiah Village, a nearby retirement community.

Brian Ramos '07 greets his date, Ferne, a Messiah Village resident, with a pink and red rose before proceeding to the Italian Oven Restaurant.

Brian Ramos ’07 wanted to plan the perfect Valentine’s Day date this year. So, he and 15 of his friends asked 16 women from Messiah Village, a nearby retirement community, to join them for a special Valentine’s Day date at the Italian Oven in Mechanicsburg, Pa.

The gentleman arrived with a pink and red rose for each woman. “The number-one reason I did this was I wanted to do something in the community to help someone else out,” Ryan Pereus ’07 told Harrisburg’s Patriot-News in a February 15 article. “Number two, I’m a single man,” he laughed. “Number three, I just wanted to have a good time.”