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Letter From New York: Hallmark Is on the March!(Valentine's Day)
Byline: Malcolm Beith
O woe should be me. yet another Valentine's Day approaches, and here I am, single. Apparently, I should be dreading the day. T shirts emblazoned with love is in pollutes the air stare at me from street stands; hundreds of anti-Valentine's Web sites sell greeting cards that say things like "Crappy Valentine's Day, you f---ing loser" or quote philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset lamenting that "One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies." I got an e-mail the other day saying that there's an anti-Valentine's "protest" taking place downtown. Maybe I should join in. They do say misery loves company.
Nah. Single or not, I love Valentine's Day. John Lennon imagined a world without heaven, no religion, too... all the people living life in peace--woo hoo, that's Valentine's Day! In our globalized world, Feb. 14 is the only holiday that we all share, regardless of race, religion, nationality and marital status. Halloween? A pagan European ritual. Christmas? No getting around the religious significance. New Year's comes close to being universal, but what about the world's two biggest countries, China and India, which have their own lunar festivities? Capitalism alone dictates V-Day.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Letter From New York: Hallmark Is on the March!(Valentine's Day)