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What are your plans for Valentine's Day?
by Kaitlin Williams
Valentine's Day - some call it a scam manufactured by Hallmark. Some
swoon and get engaged. Some scoff at the mainstream holiday and buy dis-
counted candy the day after. Yet others cast off their reservations about love
and make reservations at fancy restaurants with their significant others. How-
ever you decide to spend this random upcoming Tuesday, seize the day for
whatever you want it to mean to you. Make it a Mother's Day preview and call
up your mom to tell her you love her. Give your best girl friend a flower. Tape
hearts all over a stranger's dorm room door. Just because some guy wrote love
letters in prison doesn't mean you have to commit a crime and get locked up to
seize the passion of this February day, do a dramatic reading of Walt Whitman
for your current crush or buy a Walt Whitman chocolate sampler. Take a page
from the stories told in these pictures and reach out your hand to someone you
love. Nothing warms the heart like the heat of two hands interlocked.

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