what is  v- day about????????????????
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love and being around those who love you and who you love. just basically love.
106417
Valentine's Day is a day where people have set aside to show\nhow much they love their mate or significant other. The \nphrase "Will you be my valentine" is just a statement they\nsay on Valentine's Day. Everyday we are to show love. Not\njust on this day. Love is an everyday action. You can buy a\ngift for someone just because.
104567
i feel like valentine day is not fair. i have always had someone to share it with, but i always feel like the day is very depressing for those single people. you have a good point ---- to love everyone and not just your companion. i feel guilty when i have a valentine and some of my friends don't. they shoul make a singles day. haha
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St. Valentine's Day falls on February 14, and is the traditional day on which lovers in certain cultures let each other know about their love, commonly by sending Valentine's cards, which are often anonymous. The history of Valentine's day can be traced back to a Catholic Church feast day, in honor of Saint Valentine. The day's associations with romantic love arrived after the High Middle Ages, during which the concept of romantic love was formulated.\n\nThe day is now most closely associated with the mutual exchange of love notes in the form of "valentines." Modern Valentine symbols include the heart-shaped outline and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, the practice of hand writing notes has largely given way to the exchange of mass-produced greeting cards. The Greeting Card Association estimates that, world-wide, approximately one billion valentine cards are sent each year, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year behind Christmas. The association also estimates that women purchase approximately 85 percent of all valentines.
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becuz its a day dedicated to girls
87019
Woman's input:\nValentines Day is good but the day before is more Romantic.  Then you have the present: flowers, candy, etc. the next day to further say it all over again.  Real clincher.
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Roman Roots\nThe history of Valentine's Day is obscure, and further clouded by various fanciful legends. The holiday's roots are in the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia, a fertility celebration commemorated annually on February 15. Pope Gelasius I recast this pagan festival as a Christian feast day circa 496, declaring February 14 to be St. Valentine's Day.\n\nValentines Galore\nWhich St. Valentine this early pope intended to honor remains a mystery: according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, there were at least three early Christian saints by that name. One was a priest in Rome, another a bishop in Terni, and of a third St. Valentine almost nothing is known except that he met his end in Africa. Rather astonishingly, all three Valentines were said to have been martyred on Feb. 14.\n\nMost scholars believe that the St. Valentine of the holiday was a priest who attracted the disfavor of Roman emperor Claudius II around 270. At this stage, the factual ends and the mythic begins. According to one legend, Claudius II had prohibited marriage for young men, claiming that bachelors made better soldiers. Valentine continued to secretly perform marriage ceremonies but was eventually apprehended by the Romans and put to death. Another legend has it that Valentine, imprisoned by Claudius, fell in love with the daughter of his jailer. Before he was executed, he allegedly sent her a letter signed "from your Valentine." Probably the most plausible story surrounding St. Valentine is one not focused on Eros (passionate love) but on agape (Christian love): he was martyred for refusing to renounce his religion.\n\nIn 1969, the Catholic Church revised its liturgical calendar, removing the feast days of saints whose historical origins were questionable. St. Valentine was one of the casualties.\n\nChaucer's Love Birds\nIt was not until the 14th century that this Christian feast day became definitively associated with love. According to UCLA medieval scholar Henry Ansgar Kelly, author of Chaucer and the Cult of Saint Valentine, it was Chaucer who first linked St. Valentine's Day with romance.\n\nIn 1381, Chaucer composed a poem in honor of the engagement between England's Richard II and Anne of Bohemia. As was the poetic tradition, Chaucer associated the occasion with a feast day. In "The Parliament of Fowls," the royal engagement, the mating season of birds, and St. Valentine's Day are linked:\n\nFor this was on St. Valentine's Day, \nWhen every fowl cometh there to choose his mate.\n\nTradition of Valentine's Cards\n Over the centuries, the holiday evolved, and by the 18th century, gift-giving and exchanging hand-made cards on Valentine's Day had become common in England. Hand-made valentine cards made of lace, ribbons, and featuring cupids and hearts eventually spread to the American colonies. The tradition of Valentine's cards did not become widespread in the United States, however, until the 1850s, when Esther A. Howland, a Mount Holyoke graduate and native of Worcester, Mass., began mass-producing them. Today, of course, the holiday has become a booming commercial success. According to the Greeting Card Association, 25% of all cards sent each year are valentines.
202824
i have never heard of it. i guess it's about a day where u can share your dreams with eachother. or, it could be a day where you just sleep, and dream. i really wish that i could help you!!! i hope you find out what it is soon!!!
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Actually the valentines day is an idea for commercial businesses related with gifts, greeting cards(both online and offline), chocolates, flowers etc. and most of the other special days like fathers day, mothers day, teachers day etc. are same.\nThough I arrange something special for me & my fiance in this day. have u ever listen the word "extra care". It's a day [14 feb] to take an extra care for your beloved one... nothing so special.\nThanks.
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I've always loved the time-frame that spans from right before Thanksgiving to Valentine's Day.  You've got several holidays in there...special times when people stop & realize that Love is a *verb* & treat each other accordingly.  :)  But, thanks to my fiancee & his 5 little girls, CHRISTmastime has become more special than I ever thought possible!
229635
ok, what does this have to do with volleyball?? it should be in like dating and love!
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Your day, his day\nYour interest\nWhen is the neext time y'all going to see one another. Okay if you guys can't think of things to talk about, where's the connection??\nJUST TALK...lollol lol lol
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i'll b yor valentine 4 valentines day..............
157900
Don't be upset. You live and work with the guy and he tells you he cares about you and I'm sure he tells you that he loves you. V-day is a day for telling people you love them , not materialistic things that is hyped up to be. I'm sure he does things for you that make you happy, those moments count. He said that he will get you something on Friday. It is a work week and he just happens to be busy. It happens to all of us .Since you live together, do something romantic together, such as cook together or cuddle. I wouldn't worry.
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me and my single friends are all gonna hang together.  one year me and two of my female friends chose each others name outta hat and found that person a blind date.  it was kinda interesting.  its probably to late for that now though.  but who says u HAVE TO do something anyway.  i feel like if ur in love v-day should be everyday.  if your single its just another day.  or maybe ur young and thats why u feel like u should have a date because of peer pressure.
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I think we celebrate Valentine's day because if you didn't show your love for that one special person every other day of the year, then February 14th is the day to do it.  Showing you love or like somebody, to me, is the best thing to get or give as a gift because at least you know that somebody is thinking about you.