On Feb 12, 9:03*am, --Bryan > wrote:
> On Feb 12, 7:49*am, Cindy Hamilton >
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> > On Feb 12, 8:14*am, --Bryan > wrote:
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> > > On Feb 11, 9:37*am, Cindy Hamilton >
> > > wrote:> On Feb 11, 4:16*am, "Bob Terwilliger" >
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> > > > > It's only three days away! Is anybody else planning to cook on Valentine's
> > > > > Day? Here's the menu I'm planning. (It's got a Chinese bent because this
> > > > > year that day is also Chinese New Year, and Lin and I like to "play Chinese"
> > > > > on that day.)
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> > > > Naw, we don't do Hallmark holidays. *No Valentine's Day, no Mother's
> > > > Day, no Sweetest Day. *Pah.
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> > > Valentine's Day is not a Hallmark holiday, silly. *
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> > Sure, it is. *I don't need anybody to tell me what day to show my
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> > I love him.
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> Sure, but Valentine's Day was not invented by the greeting card
> folks. *It has a long history.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine's_Day

Valentine's Day as we know it was invented by the Victorians.

> >*Every day is Valentine's Day.
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> I'm happy for you, but there are cultural events to commemmorate lots
> of things. *Thanksgiving, Independence Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day,
> Veterans Day, etc all call attention to some aspect of life. *

And except for Thanksgiving, we don't do anything special for those,
either.
Our employers are kind enough to give us a day off (except Veterans'
Day),
but if they didn't, we wouldn't miss it.

If we had a Hooter's here, we might consider it for Valentine's Day;
it
might not be very crowded that day. When we lived near to one, we
often went there on Mother's Day or Easter for that reason.

Cindy Hamilton