What’s Your Favorite Valentine’s Day Memory?

It seems like we only just finished Christmas and here we are approaching Valentine’s Day already. 2013 will mark the tenth Valentine’s Day Jai and I have spent together – holy cow, where does the time go?! I’ll never forget that first Valentine’s Day, when Jai surprised me with a beautiful vintage bracelet. Grandma used to run a jewelry store, so he had asked her to take a look at her leftover stock. He picked out the bracelet, and also a little spiral charm, and Grandma said, “The bracelet is a good choice, but why do you want that little piece of junk [The spiral charm]?” It was actually an in-joke, because at that time I was reading a comic series called Uzumaki, where the protagonist is haunted by spirals. Once you read the comic, you start to notice spirals in everything, so he knew I’d laugh at the spiral charm. It was a great gift that I will never forget or cease to cherish – the bracelet is one of my favorite pieces of jewelry, and the charm has been hanging on my wall ever since!

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