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‘LOVE is in the air’ or at least that is the message that Valentine’s Day proclaims to the world every February 14.

For many that is not their experience. Instead it is more often about anxiously waiting for cards that never come, leaving people feeling desolate or humiliated. For others, cards come, but their anonymous nature means you have no certainty from whom they come. You hope that it might be from someone you want to develop a relationship with, but fear it might be from someone you would run a mile from!

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