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Romance/Love: February 12, 2013 Issue [#5506]

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 This week: Valentine's Day: Multiple Points of View
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Letter from the editor

*Heart* Valentine's Day from Multiple Points of View *Heart*


Over the past three or so years that I have been editing the Romance/Love Newsletter, it seems that I always end up having an issue due right around Valentine's Day! My views on Valentine's Day have obviously fluctuated each year depending on my current romantic situation, as my readers have probably been well aware. *Laugh* I have never been a huge fan of Valentine's Day. As a kid, it was one of those holidays where I felt obligated to provide a treat to every kid in my class, whether I liked them or not. Every year, I would buy the coolest cardboard with glossy coating Valentines I could find- Lisa Frank, or puppies, or some cartoon character with cards that seemed gender neutral- and write out, by hand, the names of every single one of my classmates on them until my hand cramped. Then, I received twenty-five of the same kind in return, ate the attached candy, kept them for about a week, and then threw them away.

By time I hit high school, Valentine's Day already seemed like a holiday for everybody else but me. Suddenly, it wasn't cool to treat everyone equally. Student council members would sell "candygrams" at lunch, which would be delivered to your sweetheart during homeroom along with a heart shaped lollipop. I didn't have a sweetheart, but I did always seem to have a crush who didn't like me back. That's probably when the roots of my distaste for Valentine's Day were first formed.

As I have grown up, I have realized that, while Valentine's Day is a good day for showing your significant other how much you care about him or her, that kind of appreciation should be shown year-round. Chocolates and flowers are nice, but they are much nicer when they're unexpected! Romance is really in the little things, the memories that are made together, the holding hands and the sharing of meals, no matter in what time of year they happen.

I say all of this to remind you all as writers to not get stuck in the trap of only writing about the big, grandiose romantic occasions. Although it is probably okay to write a short story focused around Valentine's Day, keep in mind the fifty gazillion other stories that have been written about the holiday, and ask yourself how you can make yours stand out. Maybe it's writing about Valentine's Day from the point of view of a lonely high school student, or maybe it's setting that romance on a different date altogether. Because, just as love shouldn't be about material possessions, Valentine's Day isn't always about life going perfectly.


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