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Valentines Day

Six Stories
of Love

Sonnets from the Portuguese, #18
by Elizabeth Barett Browning

The Giving Tree
by Shel Silverstein

How I Came to be Lawfully Wed
by Anton Chekhov

Long Walk to Forever
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man by Mark Twain

She says when she was sixteen years old she met and loved, with all the devotion of a passionate nature, a young man from New Jersey, named Williamson Breckinridge Caruthers, who was some six years her senior.

They were engaged...

The very day before the wedding was to have taken place, Breckinridge, while absorbed in watching the flight of a balloon, walked into a well and fractured one of his legs....

Aurelia's heart was almost crushed by these latter calamities.

You Were Perfectly Fine
by Dorothy Parker

"Oh, yes," he said. "Riding in the taxi. Oh, yes, sure. Pretty long ride, hmm?"

"Round and round and round the park," she said. "Oh, and the trees were shining so in the moonlight.

And you said you never knew before that you really had a soul."

"Yes," he said. "I said that. That was me." "You said such lovely, lovely things," she said.

"And I'd never known, all this time, how you had been feeling about me...."