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Fans can now debate online whether Pattinson is dreamier with short or long hair, just as they continue to wrestle over whether they love or hate the film they'd imagined in their heads for so long. Lisa Hansen, the creator of the website Twilight Moms, says the movie has left her blog community polarized. ''But the interesting thing about this is that everyone is also saying how after seeing it a second time they loved it,'' she wrote in an e-mail before heading out to her fourth screening. ''It seems to be the general consensus that it gets even better every time you see it.''

And so the phenomenon lives on, and on, and on. ''I went in expecting it to be crap and completely ruin my idea of the books,'' says Danylle Utley, a 31-year-old accountant and married mother who is the president of Salt Lake Twilighters Anonymous. ''And it completely amazed me.'' She saw the movie three times by the end of the weekend, including a Thursday midnight screening where she and 24 fellow club members dressed up in prom gowns and ate mushroom ravioli for dinner as homages to Bella and Edward's romance. ''People think that I'm insane because I'm so invested with this fandom,'' she says with a giggle. ''But they're all just jealous that the things they love aren't this big.''

Additional reporting by Dafna Pleban, Lindsay Soll, Kate Ward, and John Young

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Originally posted Nov 26, 2008 Published in issue #1024 Dec 05, 2008 Order article reprints
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