1. In a moment of twelve-year-old dramatics, you rip up a Valentines card and send the pieces to the crush who turned you down. That's okay- he's not so hot now :) (2006)
2. You're visiting family in Texas, and your aunt and uncle take pity, giving you Hershey Kiss socks as a Valentines gift. Sweet. (2007)
3. Your family decides to visit your sister in Israel, and stop off for a three-day vacation in Turkey on the way. You pick up a 24-hour bug on the plane and spend Valentines throwing up and sleeping, while your family is off sight-seeing. Your boyfriend breaks up with you by text the following week. (2009)
4. Your family decide to go skiing in France. Your dad gets to spend Valentines with his girlfriend, and you spend it eating an entire jar of Nutella with a plastic spoon, thinking about how far away your boyfriend is. (2010)
5. You're on a flight back from spending a weekend in Texas for your cousin's bar mitzvah, and accidentally pour coffee on yourself. (2011)
6. Your boyfriend has too much work to see you. (2011)
7. You have school tomorrow anyway. (2011)
8. That entire tub of ice cream in the freezer is lonely. You feel obliged. (2011)
9. You have a sinus infection. (2011)
10. And the flu. (2011)
This is why God invented chick flicks.
