I remember my first Valentine’s
Day. I was seven years old and my dad
gave me a 50 cent piece to buy a bunch of candy to take to school. I had no idea what Valentine’s Day was all
about and neither did my parents!
Presumably we had some sort of Valentine’s celebration in kindergarten
and Grade One but I don’t remember. What
I do remember was being new to the school and not getting any cards.
It’s a
terrible thing to leave children out and in those days parents and teachers didn’t
think very much about fairness. Today it
would be considered a sign of harassment, if one child didn’t get any cards. Back then, that’s just the way it was. I suppose that’s why I have never been a big
fan of Valentine’s Day. Today I find the
advertising is really over the top, even the TV stations have hearts on their
logos.
I do
have some good memories of Valentine’s though.
I remember one year my father bought my mother a huge box of chocolates
shaped like a heart and made up of pink satin ribbons and little pearls. It was really a gorgeous box and when the
candy was all gone my mother gave the box to me. For years I used it for my jewelry box until
I got an official one from my grandma.
Eventually I think I cut it up to make a hat for my Barbie doll.
I’m
sentimental about a lot of things but this is not one of the days I really get
all mushy.
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