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Five myths about Valentine’s Day

St Valentine’s day wasn’t invented by greeting-card companies.

We inherited our contemporary version of Valentine’s Day from the Victorians, but some accounts — such as a story last year in Lifehacker and another from NPR on “The Dark Origins of Valentine’s Day” — have argued that the “real” history of the holiday can be traced all the way back to ancient Rome. Read more

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