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"When a favorite show ends, it&amp;#x27;s a real bummer, isn&amp;#x27;t it? Well, researchers are now suggesting that millions of women may feel sad and lonely as a result of Oprah&amp;#x27;s long-time show ending. Really, apparently there&amp;#x27;s a scientific explanation to this... After 25 years, today is the final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show. The sadness that many women feel may be explained by a word coined by 1950&amp;#x27;s psychiatrists who&amp;#x27;d say that you may have developed a &amp;quot;parasocial,&amp;quot; or one-sided, relationship with the TV show. &amp;quot;We develop these relationships with certain characters--and it doesn&amp;#x27;t have to be a fictional character; it could be a TV personality, like Oprah,&amp;quot; says Emily Moyer-Guse, an assistant professor of communications at Ohio State University. Moyer-Guse&amp;#x27;s new study found that people tend to think of the characters and personalities in their favorite TV shows as &amp;quot;friends&amp;quot; and when the show is canceled, serious sadness and loneliness can ensue. Yep, I guess there are going to be a lot of sad people when The Oprah Show goes off the air! Can you relate to this? Have you felt sad when your favorite shows of the past ended? P.S. 6 reasons why making time for your friends (real ones, not the ones on TV!) is so good for your health. And, the healthiest way to deal with painful memories... More Ways to Get Glamour: Visit ShopGlamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Download Glamour Magazine for your iPad! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter! Add us to your iGoogle homepage. Photo: Getty"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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