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In my high school English class I was one of the few fourteen year olds left who still liked to read. I was, therefore, the obvious choice to be offered the chance to take a day off lessons and represent our school as a regional judge for a children’s’ book competition.

Nowadays, it seems as though you can’t turn on the television without seeing an ad for a psychotropic medication.  These commercials promise that you’ll feel all better if you just take the right pill; all of your mental health issues will disappear as if by magic.

There is this preconceived view that love and romance are the prerogative of the young. Likewise, some people seem to believe that once we reach a certain age, lust dries up, leaving us uninterested in sex – and love, and romance. Huh. Let me tell you, this is wrong. Very, very wrong! Some of you may be quite taken aback by this revelation.

Though St. Valentine’s Day has been celebrated for a very long time, the Valentine’s Day cards we send today, and their romantic precursors with pictures, lace and ribbons didn’t really come into fashion until the mid 19th century with the Victorian era. However, that didn’t mean that lovers in Regency England (the period between1811-1820), or in times before, didn’t observe the day.

Finding Your Soul Mate
Morgan K.
Wyatt

Does everyone have a soul mate? Better yet, what is a soul mate? It depends on how you define a soul mate...  The Greek philosopher Aristophanes first coined the idea of a race of soul mates. Instead of two individuals who loved each other, his soul mate had four arms, four legs, and two faces. They were two humans united as one. They had one mind, one purpose, and one soul.

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