Context: How did Saint Valentine die?
Method: He was beaten with clubs and then beheaded on the Via Flaminia in Rome.
Reason: He refused to renounce his Christian faith and, according to legend, defied Emperor Claudius II’s decree prohibiting marriage for soldiers.
Final Act: According to lore, while imprisoned, he restored sight to his jailer’s blind daughter and signed a final note to her, "from your Valentine".

# The Rite of St. Valentine

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It takes another drag from its cigarette. And another. It pulls its scarf a little tighter around its neck. Tonight is cold. Like it was yesterday, and the day before, and the other. It is cold, but it is warm inside, but inside is still quite cold. The inside is cold to things like it.

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