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Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Happy St. Valentine’s Day!

Candy hearts, valentine cards, chocolates, flowers. All Valentine’s Day images. The roots of St. Valentine’s day, however, are a little darker, shall we say?

C_un_smac_2013-10-24_20-45According to The American Catholic website, St. Valentine himself, for whom the holiday is names, has a sketchy background, hard to pin down. He may have been a priest who helped persecuted Christians and was beheaded, or a bishop who was beheaded, or a priest who married couples illegally when marriage was forbidden and beheaded. Not even the Catholic Church is able to confirm which of these individuals actually was St. Valentine.

However, his name is associated with love for a very good reason.

For 800 years the ancient Romans had celebrated the Festival of Lupercalia, honoring the god Lupercus. On February 15, young Roman men would draw the name of a young woman who would then become his sexual companion for…

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

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