MEGAN ROLLOFF

enough silly love songs.” - Jan Laird, New Ulm, retired special education teacher/ lifelong cynic/my mom

So I think what we have established here is … absolutely nothing. There is no one answer to any of these questions. Just as there is no one way/how/who/where/why to love.

Music is an art, and art exists to express the inexpressible. Does the corporate machine that is our modern society capitalize on these emotions by not-so-subtly suggesting giving lavish gifts, like vacations and diamonds, are necessary to prove your love every Feb. 14? Absolutely.

But that doesn’t mean that Valentine’s Day isn’t also a day to celebrate the uplifting, soulcrushing, euphoric, life-affirming, life-changing, heartbreaking, spine-tingling, overwhelming, ever-present, never-present, all-powerful feeling of love. Two, or more, things can be true at the same time. And when it comes to love, anything, and everything, can be true all at once.