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Article: THE HEART OF THE MATTER ON VALENTINE'S DAY, THE SIZE OF YOUR HEART IS A MEASUREMENT OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 14, 1988
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The Fancy Red Satin Heart is the size of a manhole cover. Maybe
bigger. Three pounds of chocolates and butter bones sit inside.
Enough chocolates and butter bones to fuel a nuclear submarine on a
six-month trip under the polar ice cap. Three pounds. The Fancy Red
Satin Heart yells and screams from its spot at the top of the shelf
in the front of the drugstore. Here I am! Size of a manhole cover.
I stare with appropriate amazement.
Who buys this thing?
The price is $34.50.
"Are there men," I ask myself, "who arrive at their
Valentine's house, walk into the parlor, slam this $34.50 manhole
cover on the coffee table, and shout, 'Hey, and you thought I'd
forget'? Are there coffee ...