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LOVING WORDS
Valentine’s Day is nearly here and, these days, whom amongst us couldn’t use a few heartfelt words of sentiment? Or at least some chocolates? Candy hearts? Please?
In any case, we hope you and your special someones are, to the best of your ability, enjoying a month of warm, fuzzy feelings. In honor of the impending holiday, we’re taking a look at sentiments past.
For decades, The Creightonian ran love notes in its classifieds leading up to Valentine’s Day.
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Many messages were heartwarming. Some were weird. A few should not be repeated.
We collected dozens of them from the ’70s, ‘80s and ’90s Creightonian classifieds. We redacted names when they were too specific. We nixed any messages with even the slightest whiff of innuendo.
Please enjoy these love notes from Valentine’s Days past, penned by that most romantic of lovebirds — the Bluejay.
From the ’70s …
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The ’80s …
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And the ’90s …
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And please enjoy this column written by the one and only Father Larry Gillick, S.J., in The Creightonian on Valentine’s Day 1997.
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