If you’re a homebody, pop a bottle of wine and put on your favorite early-2000s rom-com. If you’re a night owl, head out to the city with your girls and take turns buying a round. If you’re recently single, celebrate, baby. Put on your favorite outfit and buy yourself the flowers that your ex never got you.

Valentine’s Day is one of the world’s most commercialised religious holidays – second only perhaps to Christmas. Originally commemorated as a Christian feast day honouring a martyr named Valentine, it goes without saying that this annual celebration of love has evolved over the centuries.

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