"Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.“

-Ayelet Waldman

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"I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another."

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