'Winged Cupid painted blind': How cherub figure came to be associated with Valentine's Day

Amid the deluge of nostalgia and romance that February invokes, and the calls for resistance to this “epidemic” of love brought about by the market forces, the story of Valentine’s Day perhaps lies somewhere in between — long, complex and deserving to be told.

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