Valentine’s Day as we know it has its origins in the Roman festival of Lupercalia, a ritual designed to help promote fertility and health while cleansing away evil spirits. The legend goes that the emperor of Rome was having trouble getting men to enlist in his armies, so he banned weddings and engagements. A Christian
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