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good question.
i don't really value valentines because it was never a big part of my life. in gradeschool, even though the teachers insisted each student bring cards for everyone in class, i would always get the fewest valentines while everyone else had so much... *i* of course gave all my classmates cards AND took special attention to each message the card was saying and who i thought fit the message. yeah, i'm a little bitter about valentines. to me, it's just a hallmark holiday. i don't see why you have this ONE day to celebrate love when everyday should be celebrated. that's why my boyfriend and i have decided to celebrate this commercial holiday on the day after. :-D non-conformists we are. heh.
anyway, this is a pretty roundabout post. sorry for the tangent. materialism bothers me a lot. i see it everywhere. lower-middle class people compensating for shitty apartments with the best digital toys (computers, big screen tvs, sub woofer 6 cd changer sony stereos, etc), girls bugging their boyfriends to get them another prize in the arcade when he already won her one, and of course, valentines.
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