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Although I may not have a boyfriend, I have had everything in between, so I’m writing a letter to my medium-sized list of ex-lovers, who might tell you I’m insane, but I’ve got a bunch of blank Valentine’s day cards and I’m about to write their names.

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I will love you on Valentine’s Day. And I will love you the day after, and the day after that, when the rose petals begin to shrink and die and fall off their stems.

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There will be enough photos on Instagram of rooftop dinner views and pink-colored cocktails and giant bouquets of flowers. But what would make her feel most happy and most like herself is to put on her favorite pair of sweatpants and have you do the same, and to know that this is what is so great about having another person in your life.

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Cancer: You don’t need anything showy or grandiose this Valentine’s Day. To you, a night of snuggling with someone you care about is hands down more enticing than a big night out.

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Plenty of people will gladly help to pull you down, you don’t have to be one of them.

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Please, do yourself a favor and try to enjoy this day instead of weeping into your pillowcase for twenty four hours straight. Do yourself a favor and treat this day just like any other day! Because honestly? That’s what it is.

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Make an uber-cute relationship time capsule to forever remember this day.

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Every year, we end up immersed in ads and commercials filled with perfect couples who have everything in their relationship put together and modeling a way of love which is glamorized and sensationalized.

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Raid the grocery store candy isle and buy yourself all your favorite chocolates. And definitely splurge on the chocolate covered strawberries, you’re worth it.

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The idea is put into yours or their head that this holiday is supposed to mean something. That if you mess up or go too all-out, it’ll be written in stone for the rest of time. There’s just too much in the air, and all the societal pressure to put a figurative ring on it causes people to flip into a panic and abandon ship.