Valentine's Day Post!

Valentino was a martyr; the only thing we know about him was that he refused to deny Christ before Emperor Claudius. The Valentine's Day holiday was originally created, like many Christian holidays, to stamp out a pagan holiday near the same date (Jesus was probably born in March, for the record). It took on it's romantic connotations because of a fictional work by one Geoffrey Chaucer, of Canterbury Tales fame.

So what you are celebrating is a fictional holiday based on a tribute to someone's death pragmatically created to deal with a pre-Roman feast which existed, apparently, to replace a sacrifice made to appease sentient wolves.

My recommendation: you should treat your significant other with the same love and respect I would hope you use the rest of the year- but if you have to do something special today, protest the hunting of wolves.