February 14th is Valentine's Day, a day of great popularity or heartbreak for young people. The idea is supposed to be that young men send a card or flowers to the young woman of their choice but do not sign their name leaving the young woman to work out who they are. Nowadays most young men value certainty over romance and tend to identify themselves. It is also an opportunity for husbands to get into their wife's good books by sending her flowers and taking her out to dinner. The occasion is getting commercialised by card manufacturers, flower sellers and restaurants.
Nevertheless I have known three separate young women whose boyfriends have done the whole thing in style by sending a huge bouquet of flowers to her work, (where her colleagues will notice); taking her out to a restaurant which has been previously bribed to produce a special pudding with a diamond ring , and getting down on one knee to ask her to marry him.
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