Have a heart!
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Believe whatever Valentine’s Day origin story you want: We’re partial to the one that has St. Valentine carve out his still-beating heart and sending it to the mistress who rejected him. While that’s not very practical, or even particularly believable -- outside of a Poe story, how long would a removed heart beat, especially if you drove it to the Arkansas town of Romance to have it postmarked? -- the myth proves there’s more than one way to look at the day traditionally embroidered with a lacy trim of love. If you’ve been rolling your eyes when you see all those signs urging you to pre-order chocolate-dipped strawberries for pickup Saturday, if it’s your lot in life to always bite into the gross maple-flavored bonbon in a heart-shaped box of chocolates, this list is for you...
