Valentine's Ragtime Trot

"A period rush"

by Kate Conner-Ruben

posted 2/1/2002

I've never quite understood why Valentine's Day, being in February, is such a big thing. May, June — now those would be prime months for the coy deliverance of cards, chocolates, flowers, and protestations of undying love. But February? In old England February 14 was the day birds supposedly started to mate; but here and now, I guess the idea is

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