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My aboriginal anamnesis of the adulterated accepted in America as Valentine's Day goes aback to Miss Malub's 3rd brand chic at St. Joseph's academy in Downers Grove, IL. She'd told us to accompany in architecture cardboard and stickers from home that day, but I'd abandoned mine.
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The Chalkboard - 15 Reviews - Toy Stores - 1524B Butterfield Road ... | chalkboard downers grove ilWhen she abstruse that, the Filipina welterweight abject me to the advanced of the class, and circled me, Gestapo style, as she relentlessly whined about my abridgement of preparation. Afterwards three nasally orbits, I'd had abundant and yelped, "Who cares? It's aloof brainless Valentine's cards!"
She lurched at the chalkboard, launched an eraser at my arch and hissed, "Is NOT stupid. Is about LOVE!"
At impact, my arch airtight aback and to the left, abrogation a white, ellipsoidal kiss on my forehead. "Is a adulation tap, get over it."
Evidently, like abounding Miss Americans, Miss Malub got a little bad-tempered about the average of February. Decades later, I accomplished it wasn't her fault. She was duped.
Valentine's Day is a absolutely bogus holiday.
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The Chalkboard - 15 Reviews - Toy Stores - 1524B Butterfield Road ... | chalkboard downers grove ilIn it's accepted form, VD exists to advertise flowers, and candy, affluence commons and vacations. It's answer as a anniversary of adulation -- as in the promoters of VD adulation to allegation $100 for a dozen two-dollar roses and adulation to book a blessed brace into a accepted auberge allowance for a affluence price. All you charge is LOVE.
As we altercate at breadth on this week's podcast - my wife thinks VD sucks about as abundant as I do. And clashing abounding folks, she's not aloof adage so because she doesn't appetite to accept that actuality abandoned on THIS accurate day feels a thousand times worse than activity abandoned on aloof a accidental Friday night. She walks the walk. No bad-tempered face back I appear through the aperture abandoned handed on February 14th. No base comments if she's not animate on The Day with red balloons and a cord quartet. Because we try to animate every day with a little TLC, we escape Humping's High Holy Day anniversary year afterwards accepting screwed.
One of the abounding affidavit I adulation her, is that, acutely as I, she understands that Love, and absolutely ardent expressions thereof, can not be appointed in iCal. Intense affecting absoluteness can not be banned in the Walgreens promotional aisle. And the bewitched affiliation of two bodies who were destined to be calm can not be explained from some intern's board abysmal in the belly of Hallmark's Kansas City home office.
Love is altered for everyone. There's actuality IN love. Loving your love. Loving the activity of actuality in Love. Rebound love. And that crazy affair that begins with the 2AM text: "Wanna get some ice cream?"
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The Chalkboard - 15 Reviews - Toy Stores - 1524B Butterfield Road ... | chalkboard downers grove ilI'm acute abundant to know, that afterwards 25 continued years of assorted types, styles and base of love, I don't apperceive a affair about it.
Luckily, we met some bodies who do.
On our contempo honeymoon, we catholic to the abandoned Osteria di Passingnano in Tuscany, Italia for an afternoon wine tasting. As we've abundant before, the aliment in Tuscany is above compare. Her augment ravioli brought tears to Yeni's eyes... of course, that was afterwards three wine flights. Luckily, we've got video.
Because it was the off season, there were alone two added active tables in the absolute place. But as it angry out, amid them, the two couples had been affiliated for 105 YEARS!!
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The Chalkboard - 15 Reviews - Toy Stores - 1524B Butterfield Road ... | chalkboard downers grove ilTHESE bodies MUST apperceive about love, right? These affecting Italians, 45 years for one couple, 61 or 62 years, depending on who you asked, for the other, accept lived the affiliated activity for best than Ive been alive.
No added promotional platitudes, Pollyanna promises or bonbon hearts that aftertaste like chalk. We had over a Century of acumen trapped aural reach. Luckily, all we had to do was ask:
Find me a agenda or a box of chocolates or boutonniere of flowers that affecting and insightful, and I'd adulation to buy them. In the meantime, Blessed VD -- alive every day for love, action and anniversary other.
Everyday but February 14th. Fight the Power!
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