Happy Valentine's Day Kimorah (2013) - Jamie Breeze
You've had such an impact on me, it's unreal. I'm caught in some kind of pseudo time flux where all the memories feel like they happened forever ago, but also feel like they happened yesterday. Before I met you I didn't have much purpose or morale about me, but then we got to talking, and a few months later we're dating. Then I met you, and saw you with my own eyes. Who knows; we could be married in a few years. I wouldn't feel much more than a sparse hybrid of pride and love after that. And luckily for me, I'll be seeing you again this Valentine's Day. -Jamie Breeze
The Origins of Valentine's Day
The origins of Valentine's Day may be a bit disappointing. Valentine's Day is probably named for a saint. Its transformation into a love-fest seems to have been catalyzed by a single Englishman in the 14th century -- well beyond the termination date for bawdy Roman fertility festivals, like the Lupercalia.
Chaucer first linked the February holiday of Valentine's Day, a martyred saint's day, with romance, and even then, not really romance, but birds mating. Then, after some centuries of an increasingly popular association between Valentine's Day and romance came the development of cheap-to-mail paper Valentine's Day cards and the birth of an American holiday in the mid-19th century.
Chaucer first linked the February holiday of Valentine's Day, a martyred saint's day, with romance, and even then, not really romance, but birds mating. Then, after some centuries of an increasingly popular association between Valentine's Day and romance came the development of cheap-to-mail paper Valentine's Day cards and the birth of an American holiday in the mid-19th century.
