"Somebody to Love"
"Cupid and Santa and New Year's, Oh Puh-leeze!"

Holidays are overrated, particularly if you’re looking for somebody to love. We mean it. Take Valentine’s Day for instance – all the giant Snoopy cards with fluttering hearts, the lovey-dovey greeting cards with a four-page spread of sappy poetry, the talking teddy bears, the umpteen jewelry commercials. It’s fabulous that there’s a holiday meant to celebrate love, but people do tend to get carried away.

Now, did you read what we just wrote there? Valentine’s Day is a holiday that celebrates love… just like Christmas is a holiday that celebrates family and togetherness… just like Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful… just like New Year’s is a time to recapture hope.

So let’s celebrate the heart that pounds in your chest, the wonderful you that you are. Every day can be a holiday for you and your embraceable flaws. While that red and pink (and bruised?) muscle may not be thump-thump-thumping for a significant other at the moment, there are plenty of people you love in this life, from your parents to your siblings to your best friend to your devoted pet to the goofy neighbor who drops off a batch of brownies for no reason every blue moon.

Whether you’re looking for someone to love, whether you’re p-o-ed at Cupid, or whether you’ve found your soul mate, let’s celebrate love, and the promise of it…

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