OPINION: A Good Holiday
Is it Valentine's Day?
"It’s a Hallmark holiday." "I don’t need the corporate definition of a relationship." "I’m not buying into some cheap facsimile of ‘love’ packaged in a heart-shaped box." You have probably said one of the above lines, or some reasonable approximation thereof, most likely while standing in line at Rite-Aid clutching an ignominious $3 piece of cardboard. No holiday is more reviled than St. Valentine’s, a day that manages to make martyrs of us all. You can’t force love, conventional wisdom says, so why should we force a celebration of it? At this point, lonely, bitter singles sitting alone on Feb. 14 have become such a trope it’s unclear if the American sitcom or romantic comedy could exist without the crutch. Like its fellow rooted-in-…
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