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happy valentine's day. even though there was no st. valentine. and if there was one no one knows who he is. he was supposedly a martyr. the valentine's feast was supposed to honor martyrs of Christianity in Rome, but more likely was supposed to replace Lupercalia which was an older Roman tradition where citizens cleanse the city of bad spirits and release health and fertility. Fertility, huh, now this is starting to make sense. So this holiday started from an ancient ritual that taps into our primordial urge to propagate. Then Chaucer decided to jazz up the feast in the 14th Century and associate it with romantic love in his "Parliament of Foules". Suddenly every love-struck foule had to send his "valentine" sweet notes and shower her with gifts. But time rolls on, progress, technology, industrial revolution, V8, 8 tracks, internet, tivo, netflix, until now we can't be bothered to come up with a few words to put in a card to go along with the chocolates and lingerie to celebrate a holiday Chaucer invented for a nonexistent saint that began as a way to replace a pagan holiday. Thank God Hallmark came around to fill this very important gap in our society.