A Valentine's card was sent to someone a person romantically liked but had never told them, like a secret admirer. It was so wonderful to get a Valentine's card. Well, I think it was, I don't really know as I never actually got one from a secret admirer. Every Valentine's day I would be on tenderhooks all day at school, waiting to go home to see if one had arrived. Next day girls would bring theirs in and we would try and guess who sent it from the handwriting but nary a one ever showed up through my letterbox. But I know if one had, it would have been wonderful.
Lover's and spouses sent them to each other too but the real excitement was getting one that you didn't know who sent it.
It wasn't about Mums and Dad's sending their kids a card or about you sending one to everyone in your class, it was just about romance.
But since living in North America I have been drawn in. Not completely, but a little bit. We send out Jacquie Lawson e cards to our children and grandkids and of course we buy each other cards and little gifts. I also put a Happy Valentine's Day message on Facebook but that's as far as it goes
My husband always buys me a teddy bear and I buy him a little stuffed toy and usually a mug. I have lots of teddy bears, even the 4 foot one. I love them all.
Here is this year's bear.
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