Article: Oh, St. Valentine, where are you now?

Along about the last week in January when I was a child 50 years ago, suddenly the valentine counter materialized at the dimestore. Next to the penny valentines lay a display of red construction paper, lacy white paper doilies and small jars of incredibly good-smelling paste, complete with little metal-handled brushes rubber-banded to them.

All this prompted the yearly question - shall I buy my valentines or make them?

Usually, after shaking out the contents of the baking powder can which was my bank, I would decide, "I'll buy them."

After all, the paper and doilies were 10 cents a package, and counting my worldly assets (in a good year) I found I had 9 cents.

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