The worst Valentine's Day of my life was a gift

A gift in really shitty wrapping, but a gift nonetheless.

Valentine’s Day invites us to paint a caricature of love. Valentine’s Day is to love as false eyelashes and high heels are to womanhood: one heightened manifestation of the thing, but by no means the thing in its fullness or normalcy.

The thing is, I would like every day to feel like Valentine’s Day, just as I would like to be the type of person who can …