Cancel My Card, Men Just Loathe Valentine's [Edition 2]
Evening Standard - London › February 14, 2009
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THE Catholic Church got it right. In 1969, in a move to cull imaginary and unreliable saints, St Valentine's Day was dropped entirely from the church calendar.
It's not an ancient and honourable tradition. The wretch responsible for the St Valentine's Day we now endure was one Esther Howland of Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1847, Egregious Esther hit on the idea of selling massproduced embossed St Valentine's Day cards through her father's stationery store. With dreadful consequences for subsequent generations, the habit caught on, instead of dropping dead from sheer embarrassment.See the full content of this document
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Cancel My Card, Men Just Loathe Valentine's [Edition 2]
Given the current state of play between the sexes, Valentine's Day surely generates at least as much misery as it...
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