Well Ritz...........you're both right. Valentine's Day traditionally has been the day lovers express their affection with greetings and gifts. The real history of V-day is spotty at best. It seems to have started with a Roman festival called the Festival of Lupercalia, which took place in February. It was a festival to celebrate the arrival of spring, fertility, and all that jazz. They held a lottery and guys and gals paired off for fun and frolicking. Gotta love those Romans!! Then that dickwad Pope Gelasius decided to forbid all that fun and replaced it with St. Valentine's Day. That held until the 1300s when for some reason Valentine's Day became focused on romance. From then until recently, it's stayed a lover's holiday, the rest of us be damned. Recently, with the world upside down and full of haters, it seems to have watered down a bit, as inclusion is now the flavor of the day.....so there's nothing wrong with your new view. At some point, humans will look back at the homogenization of our culture and the elimination of individualism and just shake their heads. But that day is not today........so Happy (yawn) Valentine's Day everyone!
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Bob