Same with me. It's a contrived "holiday". I've never liked receiving roses and candy because a guy felt he HAD to. I liked the Valentine's Day cards we used to give to one another in grade school though.
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I hear you. A few years back I had been going through my place trying to clean things out when I came across a little stack of elementary school Valentine's cards I had kept for some reason. Reading them with "older eyes" it struck me how although the cards themselves were pretty sappy, the way they were signed held such a sense of childlike love and innocence. Needless to say, instead of putting them in the trash pile, I decided to hold onto them a little longer. :-)
Valentine's Day IS contrived and has never been a big deal to me. But in grade school, I used to love to count all the valentines I received. THAT was FUN!~
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-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)