February 14th is Valentine's Day. On Valentine's Day, you send a card to someone you love or like. Boys send cards to girls and girls send cards to boys. You do not put your name in the card -it is a secret! For hundreds of years, this date has been when young men and women choose their sweethearts. There is an old story that the birds too, choose their mates on this day.

St. Valentine is the saint of people in love. Those who are very up-to-date put a message in the personal column of a newspaper. Some British newspapers have a page for Valentine's Day messages on February 14th.