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The Speeches: Valentine's Day

Once upon a time I wrote a podcast for a slow witted Canadian and a sassy English iPad. For some reason I assumed I could write, produce and act out a small play that involved complaining and lite observational comedy. I cannot write. I cannot act to save my life. Neither of those facts prevented me from writing long monologues for myself to perform. This is one of those speeches: Oh, I know, it's Valentines Day! How could I forget. Its one holiday that doesn't celebrate the ending of a war, the death of an activist or the birth of the greatest lie ever force fed to the worlds ignorant masses within the past two thousand years. Valentines Day – not just for lovers, it is also the best day of the year to showcase the disparate and the desperate, the geeky and the nerdy, the overly aggressive tanned single party people and the overly fat socially awkward crowd who, once a year, feel the need to leave their caves and interact with the outside world. They all have som...