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About Valentine's Day:Valentine's Day or Saint Valentine's Day is an American and European holiday celebrated each year on February 14. Traditionally it is a day on which lovers express their love for each other by exchanging Valentine's cards, presenting flowers, offering candies or other gifts.
Modern Valentine symbols include the heart-shaped outline and a figure of the winged Cupid. Before the 19th century, handwritten notes were common but have since been replaced by mass-produced cards.
It is estimated by the U.S. Greeting Card Association that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year behind Christmas.
Legend has it that Emperor Claudius II ordered young men may not marry as he felt marriage made for poor soldiers. St. Valentine, a priest at that time, went against the Emperor and secretly married those who wished to be. St. Valentine was eventually imprisoned for his actions against the emperor and while in prison, it is said that Valentine fell in love with the jailor's daughter and signed "From your Valentine" This became the first "Valentine" ever.
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