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Valentines’ Day

Yes, My Love?

I know you’re busy on Valentines’ Day. By the way, is it Valentine’s Day or Valentines’ Day?

I don’t know, maybe you should ask Google?!

Okay, the correct spelling is “Valentine’s Day” —

Okay? What about it?

Well, my google news AI friend told me that you’re gonna be busy on Valentine’s Day.

Am I?! You have a google news AI friend?!

Well. I think it is friendly. It hasn’t shown me things that are too off-putting. If it does, I will give it feedback. But so far it suggests to me some local news and news topics from your genre… a bit of fashion… sometimes it even shows me recipes that it thinks I’ll like, and I can “heart” a news piece to let it know that I like it. I’ve only liked one piece of news about you so far… (Giggles)

Which one?

There was one recently on Teen Vogue.

Really?! You’re serious. This isn’t fiction?

(Giggles)

What do you know about Valentine’s Day? How are you feeling about it?

I know you’re going to be busy on, and around Valentine’s Day.

I’m feeling okay… I mean, at first I was like, (sigh) so we won’t be able to spend that particular day together… but then, I also suddenly remembered — you were once very, very jealous of a totally PLATONIC FRIEND — who’s birthday was around Valentine’s Day. Not even a friend, actually, I just used that word but really more of an acquaintance. I barely talked to that person, I just mentioned, briefly, in conversation with other friends, “Oh yeah they’re kinda cute” or something like that — IT WAS SO HARMLESS AND YOU GOT SO JEALOUS —

(Blood boiling) (Still remembering this) Harmless… platonic… Valentine’s Day dude…

(Laughing) HAVE YOU NOT LET THIS GO AFTER 18 YEARS??!?!?!?!

No. I haven’t let it go after 18 years. I’m going to be working EVERY Valentine’s Day for the rest of our lives so then we NEVER HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THAT GUY EVER AGAIN.

But don’t you think the fact that we’re suddenly bringing him up and arguing about him now means that, you’re the one still thinking about him, not creating NEW MEMORIES WITH ME on Valentine’s Day, and that, we’ll only get over this if we actually create more memories between ourselves on or around Valentine’s Day?!

We can create memories around Chinese Valentine’s Day — when is that?!

I don’t know. Google?!

Right. We will create memories around CHINESE Valentine’s Day because your heritage — your ancestry is CHINESE — so we will celebrate CHINESE VALENTINE’S DAY.

(Giggles) You’re making this a really big deal when it’s NOT…

I DON’T CARE ABOUT WESTERN VALENTINE’S DAY. IT’S A WORK DAY.

Nobody’s gonna fuckin’ trigger me on that day.

(Giggles) Okay well… it’s on a Friday this year, maybe I am at work too, I don’t know. The roster’s not out yet.