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Relatively fresh from the very expensive Holiday season comes Valentine’s Day,
yet another ancient feast day commemorating certain holy Christian
people, with suspiciously pagan undertones and precedences. In
modernity, it is utilized as a day for lovers (and supposedly married
people) to rekindle their romantic fantasies about each other. For the
untethered, it serves as a chance to show their devotion to get into
their... lives.
This
is a day of rose bouquets, chocolates and candies, romantic dinners,
and jam-packed love motels. Like Christmas and Easter, it has been
thoroughly commercialized so as to be more lucrative for those doing the
peddling.