Saint Valentine's Day (commonly shortened to Valentine's Day) is an annual holiday held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. The holiday is named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Valentine and was established by Pope Gelasius I in AD 496. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). The holiday first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished -- from WIkipedia
I've never been one to get into the whole V-Day thing. I don't quite get the whole idea of it all; showing your proposed love by giving cards and gifts on one identified day of the year. It just seems a bit forced to me, and unauthentic. But if you have a Valentine today, I hope you're enjoying and making the best of it.
Leaving you with a couple of songs that come to mind on this day.
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