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maybe a massage done. Ashok ji called and                                   PEOPLE SPEAK PAGE #2
    he said when he got married at that time even
    celebrating anniversaries was rare as in it wasn’t          day to celebrate love and pamper
    done with the same style as people celebrate                your  loved  ones. This  day  gives  a
    now and he said he really likes this Valentine’s            chance  to show gratitude towards
    tradition of celebrating love and he enjoys taking          your loved ones and thanking them
    his wife out for dinner and tries to make sure              for being in your life.
    they travel to some place around valentine’s day            I  for  one  feel we should enjoy
    so that he and his wife can get some quality time
                                                                and be grateful  for  all  the lovely
                                                                             people we have in our
                                                                             life  and should  not
                                                                             leave any chance     or
                                                                             any     opportunity       of
                                                                             celebrating it.

                                                                             On      Valentine’s     day
                                                                             people usually wear red
                                                                             or pink, do you know the
                                                                             reason why? Red means
                                                                             love, symbolic of the
                                                                             heart, and the red rose
                                                                             was the favorite flower
                                                                             of Venus, the Roman
                                                                             goddess of love. Red
                                                                             and white, make pink.
                                                                             Red is usually  reserved
    together. Suneeta said its one day her family really        for romantic, intimate relationships
    pampers each other a lot, not just her husband              and pink can be  for close  friends
    but even the kids celebrate the love and bonding            and family members on Valentine’s
    and look forward to going out to some fancy                 Day. I would say pick any color of
    restaurant and they all give gifts to each other,           your choice and enjoy this special
    the gifts she said are nothing very expensive.              day dedicated to your love or loved
    The gifts are just a token of their love for each           ones. Wishing all my listeners and
    other. Since she explained that birthdays and               readers a very happy,  fun and
    anniversaries are a very individual celebration             fulfilling Valentine’s Day!!
    but valentine’s is celebration of love and it could
    be a love between family members, friends and
    so they  go all out to celebrate each other on                                                     By
    this day. Kanishk said he feels Valentine’s Day                                          Madhulika
    is over rated, over commercialized, it is the best                                       Chaturvedi
    time for businesses to boom, restaurants would
    be fully booked, food will be overpriced, hotels
    become crazily expensive  , and sadly people
    go crazy over these things! Deepa feels it is a


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