I didn't realize that Valentine's day was coming up! We never really celebrated it. We never saw the point in picking out a specific day of the year where everyone celebrated their love for each other with sappy poetry and fattening confections. Isn't that what anniversaries are for? Besides...
There is the claim that the Christian church may have decided to celebrate Valentine's feast day in the middle of February in an effort to 'christianize' celebrations of the pagan Lupercalia festival. And...
I think it sad that we celebrate romance and love on a day that is the anniversary for the slaughter by Al Capone in Chicago 1929. How can these two things coexist? Ok so maybe I'm more of a romantic than I care to admit, but really! 7 people are killed and we celebrate with sugar and love poems.
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