MY VERY FAVORITE VALENTINE
By Trish Jensen
I have an admission to make. I’ve never had a really cool Valentine with any boyfriends or even my husband of ten years. Same old, same old flowers and dinners out and yada, yada. Nice, but just not all that creative or new. I appreciated but kept thinking, “This is what you came up with? Did I really believe you were special?”
I spent every year thinking up treasure hunts or whatever to make them fun. And
every year I’d get roses and cards. Actually, one year I received a new furnace. I almost fainted with the romance of it all.
Eventually, the truth finally sunk in. Men just didn’t get it. Valentine’s Day was something they had to do because it was expected. There wasn’t a romantic bone in any of their bodies.
So, okay, men were dolts. A fact of life. Live with it.
But then on Valentine’s Day, after my marriage kind of crumbled and I was looking at a pretty bleak day, my doorbell rang. It was a delivery guy, holding a box and a balloon. He sang “I’ll always love you,” then handed over the box and the balloon. The balloon said, “Happy Valentine’s Day, my sweetheart.” In the box were two things: One was a beautiful necklace and the other a note. “You’ll always be my baby.”
It was from my dad.
And that was my best Valentine’s Day ever.
It doesn’t matter who the love comes from, it matters what it means. And that meant the world to me.
I wish you all a happy Valentine’s Day! And no furnaces as gifts! J
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