Off Message: Finally, a Valentine’s Day with a difference
Admit it – you feel a bit of relief at not having to remember to send flowers or traipse along to an overpriced restaurant with your other half next weekend
I was in my first year of secondary school, sitting one day in French class as the teacher sketched out verb conjugations on the blackboard, when a knock at the door came. I was wanted in the principal’s office, a breezy second year student informed the teacher. Someone had attempted to send a Valentine’s card to me and it had been delivered not to my house, but the school. I was to go to the ...