Valentine's Day Cards Snare Hapless Men in Tests of Affection: ; No Matter the Accompanying Gift, Women Will Want the Card and Want It First

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Here's a valentine to all the greeting-card companies I'm letting down this year by not buying someone else's words.

Maybe something embossed with red, yellow or pink roses (every color is a cliche now), or Ziggy-like creatures holding out daisies to each other amid floating hearts and phrases that the card's recipient would be mortified even to mouth. At less lucrative times of the year, the same characters lament the recipient's birthday or attempt humor as he emerges from brain surgery.

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Valentine's Day Cards Snare Hapless Men in Tests of Affection: ; No Matter the Accompanying Gift, Women Will Want the Card and Want It First

Nothing, incidentally, is more treacherous than the get-well or leaving-work card (except maybe a yearbook after your high school crush scribbles "to a...

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