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How did the tradition of exchanging valentines start?

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Given their similarities, it has been suggested that the festival has origins in the Roman festival of Lupercalia, held in mid-February. The festival, which celebrated the coming of spring, included fertility rites and the paring off of women with men by the lottery
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