Sometimes it is better to cut your losses and keep your options. This is a story of Valentines Past.

Growing up as an only child in a foreign country with an absent father and severely depressed mother I learned to surround myself with love the best way I could. I constructed my own family with my stuffed animals. You’d think it would have been something I’d outgrow in my twenties but there’s something to be said for having someone, even if they are in part fictional, by your side whenever you need them.