Not that I want to spoil anyone's Valentine's Day, but a new book about the floral industry offers a less than romantic picture of how all those blooms arrive on the doorstep: "Readers of "Flower Confidential" will be surprised and appalled to learn the extent to which something as fleeting and romantic as a rose or a lily has been turned into an industrial widget."
PS: Slate goes all steamy with an up-market collection of Valentine's Day verse.
PPS: Soppy video moment ahead... Roberta Flack sings The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face over scenes from Jane Eyre. That's what I call a double-whammy.
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