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A peek inside my collections: vintage Valentine’s Day cards
My most devastating Valentine’s Day memory is from the second grade. Steven, my neighbour and the love of my life, tore up the Valentine I gave him RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. He didn’t just tear it up, no, he made a big production out of shredding it into teeny little bits and tossing them in the air. It was heartbreaking. It was a very special Valentine too. I picked it out just for him and painstakingly tore it out of one of those huge perforated books my mom bought for me that year. (Remember those?) It was a picture of a cat holding a lemon, and it read “Don’t be a sour puss.” I think I beat him up after that.
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I have a smallish collection of vintage Valentine’s Day cards. They make me smile every time I look at them. I love the artwork, and I love that some of them aren’t exactly P.C. anymore. I think modern day kid’s cards – the kind we buy in paper boxes to give out at school – just don’t hold the same charm. What do you think? How can Spongebob, Spiderman, or Barbie compare to these little beauties?
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Andrea Tomkins
Mother of two imps and wife of one. Writer, photographer, pro blogger, adventure-seeker, Ottawaholic, social media evangelist and lover of STUFF. Also known as @missfish on Twitter.
Pauline
“I think modern day kid’s cards – the kind we buy in paper boxes to give out at school – just don’t hold the same charm.”
Definitely not and the “humor” in some of them isn’t funny, just gross.
Sorry that kid was so mean to you, but at least you can still appreciate the cards.:)