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So when did Valentine’s Day become a school candy fest?<\/p>\nSo when did Valentine’s Day become a school candy fest?<\/p>\n
When I was a kid (shortly after the invention of candy), we did have the standard “Everyone Trade Cheap Cards With Everyone In The Class, Even The Kids You Don’t Like, So That Nobody Feels Left Out” soiree, but, aside from the occasional little heart candy with a message<\/a> (always carefully picked out), there wasn’t much in the way of eats.<\/p>\n Katherine, on the other hand, came home loaded for bear, especially bears with sweet teeth. There were plenty of cards (and I envy the parents who only had to have their kids inscribe “Noah” on the FROM line, rather than “Katherine”), but even most of them were carrying cases for some sort of sweet. <\/p>\n Of course, who am I to talk? Through some strange happenstance, this year became a Best Buy Valentine’s Day, and Katherine and Margie netted<\/a> some<\/a> DVDs<\/a> as the objects of my affection. Throw in a trip to the store with Kitten to pick out a (very attractive, her choice) Valentine’s Day card for Mommy, though, and it wasn’t a bad celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So when did Valentine’s Day become a school candy fest? 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