Happy Galentine's Day! Where Valentine's Day is all about the romance, Galentine's Day is all about the female friendships you have.

Galentine’s Day is celebrated on Feb. 13 each year, and this year, it lands on a Thursday. While Galentine’s Day is not an official holiday, research from National Today shows searches for Galentine’s Day have increased 400% (with Missouri ranking No. 1 in looking it up, followed by Virginia, Louisiana, Colorado and Arizona) since 2015.

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Galentine's Day was originally introduced by the fictional character Leslie Knope, played by Amy Poehler, in a “Parks and Recreation” episode airing in 2010. The “holiday” eventually made its way into the real world, and has become increasingly popular with time.

The Amy Poehler-led NBC sitcom aired an episode called “ Galentine’s Day ,” named after an annual “women’s-only marathon bonding session” created by Poehler’s ever-optimistic Leslie Knope. On the show,

The Galentine's Day tradition was started almost a decade ago by Leslie Knope, the main character in the US sitcom Parks and Recreation as a chance for the female characters in the programme to get together and celebrate "ovaries before brovaries".

Christine Lewis and Ramonia Nelson enjoy socializing during the Women United Galentine's Lunch on Feb. 13 at the United Way of Aiken County's Sharon L. Rodgers Community Resource Center in Aiken. During the inaugural Women United Galentine’s Lunch on Feb.