Thursday, February 14, 2008

not another red carnation

For every life situation there is a fitting quote from the hand of Shakespeare.—J.V. Hart

So speaking as I think, alas, I die. [She dies.]—the character Emilia, Othello, Shakespeare

My most memorable Valentine’s Day is not the one when I sent the three best valentines I could find to the three meanest boys in the third grade. (An attempt to turn them into nicer people, which failed miserably.) That’s a runner up, perhaps.

But my favorite Valentine’s Day weekend—for several reasons—was spent in England, during my sophomore year. It was the weekend that I learned to die: stabbed by an umbrella and croaking my last words in a southern accent. Is there a more out-of-the-box Valentine’s Day than that?

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Posted by Jenn Langefeld on 02/14 at 07:10 PM
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