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Chaucer (MM #4758)

It’s April Fools’ Day, one of my least favorite days of the year. I love a good joke, but I never got into pranks. I know this is something I talk about every year. It’s a day for amateurs to try to be funny, and they often fail. I always assumed that this was a…

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St Valentine (MM #2885)

It’s Valentine’s Day, and that made me wonder why St Valentine was honored every year. Of course I thought that he might have started the celebration. But will it surprise you that I’ve found out that this is far from the truth?

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