Valentine’s Day: Romantics’ paradise? Tardy bell for cold-footted lovers? Day of saccharine sweetness? Pagan love-fest? Your one chance to send sappy spam messages without remorse?

As a kid, Valentine’s Day was a day to make cards for my parents and trade those little heart-shaped minty candies with classmates. I never had any “girlfriends” in elementary school, so there was never any more to it than what my school supplied. In high school and college (both private Christian schools), Valentine’s Day was something scarcely mentioned, and likely to attract suspicious eyes if celebrated in any traditional fashion. And these days … I’m not sure what it is.

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