14.02.2009 [guardian] - To the jaded eye, Valentine's cards look tackier than ever this year. Where Valentine's day was once associated with mating birds (Chaucer: "When every fowl cometh there to choose his mate"; Shakespeare: "Begin these wood-birds but to couple now?"), it has become a menagerie of cuteness, with puppies, mice, kittens ("You're purrfect!") and, overwhelmingly, teddy bears the
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