Published February 11, 2021, 8:36 PM
Valentine in this pandemic can be a good story if, as Ernest Hemingway once put it, ‘it is like Manila Hotel’
I remember this time last year, when COVID was a vague and hazy virus lurking in the shadows, worrisome enough that the government froze flights and stopped inbound tourism from certain areas, but still seemed harmless enough that we were still at malls, in a mad rush to buy gifts for loved ones, in packed restaurants trying to book reservations for the special day, in movie theaters catching the latest release.
Ah, scenes from a lifetime ago.