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Cupid is stupid, too.
But I understand why you are sick of the commercialism of Valentine's Day. In the Latin era, February was a big month for festivals. The Roman Festival of Lupercalia, which culminated with a parade on February 15, is a factor in the development of Valentine's Day, according to some sources. Some sources say the Lupercalia rites also included a game that allowed boys to pick, from an urn or box, the names of girls written on a piece of paper. Some experts also say that the smaller festival of Juno Februata, the goddess of love's fever, was conjoined to rites of the Lupercalia.