Before Valentine’s Day, some couples just roll their eyes at each other out of mutual cynicism. But Valentine’s Day gifts are hardly a contemporary invention. This day was already a holiday of several mysterious early Roman martyrs Saint Valentine’s Day, but Chaucer described it as a day when people could choose their lovers. Nature explains to the assembled herds that, as every year on Saint Valentine’s Day, they have come to choose their mates in accordance with her rules. There have, of course, been stranger examples of love gifts, such as Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton exchanging necklaces with silver pendants smeared in each other’s blood.

Source: Ethiopian News February 12, 2023 21:26 UTC