Good morning and happy Valentine´s Day. / myLot

Chile

February 14, 2023 6:30am CST

Everything online is filled with hearts today, friends. It is Valentine´s Day. For us Valentine´s Day is an imported holiday just like Halloween. The first time I knew about it was when I went to the US when I was 11 and my classmates gave me beautiful Valentine´s cards. Luckily my parents had heard of it and bouth for me to give away a book full of Valentine´s cards that I tore away and gave to my schoolmates in return. Time went by and Valentine´s Day came to my country although not as enthusiastic as in the US. Some people gave heart shaped chocolates to their loved ones but that was all. Many years later I received a sort of Valentine´s Day present

I was in the US for a holiday and was aware that I had to go to a mall to get some garments I needed. Little did I know that it was the day after Saint Valentine´s Day. I needed a summer nightie and went to check if I could buy one. At a big store there were the most beautiful Valentine´s nighties, all cotton as I like them with red heart prints over white. I don´t know what the price had been the day before but that day they were on sale a US $1 each. I bought 2 and I should have bought more. They lasted me for over a decade.

Now I live alone but I still have in my heart the memories of my Valentine.

I am lucky.

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ShannyBananny

@shaggin (72116)

• United States

14 Feb 23

Oh wow that sure was a good deal on the nightie since it lasted so long. Sounds like you wear ones like my mother does. So you lived in the US when you were 11. How long did you stay and what state did you live in?

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ShannyBananny

@shaggin (72116)

• United States

14 Feb 23

@marguicha very neat! Was it exciting being in a new country or scary leaving your friends and family behind?

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marguicha

@marguicha (222838)

• Chile

15 Feb 23

@shaggin Both, I suppose. Specially since we did not know the language.

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marguicha

@marguicha (222838)

• Chile

14 Feb 23

I wear short nighties most of the time except now in winter when I wear very warm PJs. I lived a year and a helf in the US in the State of Wisconsin. My father got a fellowship at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (471294)

• Switzerland

14 Feb 23

Valentine's Day celebration came to Italy when I was already a teenager. The first Valentine's gift I received was in 1969 from my ex-boyfriend. He sent me a beautiful bouquet of red roses through the "Interflora" organization. He did not live in my city and he was in the Italian Navy.

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marguicha

@marguicha (222838)

• Chile

14 Feb 23

How sweet of him! It must have costed a great deal of his pay.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (471294)

• Switzerland

15 Feb 23

@marguicha - He was a nice young man, just not the right man for me.