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Article: Oh, St. Valentine, where are you now?
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 10, 1986
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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.
Not for us the ...
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