Sending love messages, even in the form of poems, and gifts, mostly, flowers, to lovers, secret ones or somebody one would love to love, has become widespread on St Valentine’s Day. The customs associated with the event could well date back to a belief in England and France, during the Middle Ages, that on February 14 – half way through the second month of the year – the birds begin to pair.

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