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I’ve loved Valentine’s Day since my childhood. I loved decorating a shoe box to collect classmates’ offerings. I loved using clunky safety scissors to cut out pink paper hearts. I loved using the sticky mucilage glue to stick doilies everywhere. More than all of those things, I loved pulling the crinkly wrapper from a cherry…
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Memphis readers (of a certain age, at least), come with me on memory field trip: I’m little, maybe three years old, and I’m going to the grocery store with my mother. We park the car, walk hand-in-hand to the door, enter the store. My mother gets a shopping cart, lifts me into it so I…