Livre d'Or

Yes, this! I always used to get a v-day card from my mum, and I would send her one.

My model of v-day seems different from Liv's - it's not, in my brain, a day about traditional relationships celebrating themselves openly (although clearly now it has grown to encompass this), it's a day about secret love making secret hints that it exists. It's the anonymous card, the secret bunch of flowers... So I don't think it does, traditionally, at least in my head, celebrate existing romantic relationships that fit obvious models. It celebrates the fact that sometimes love isn't easy and people pine and don't know how to say things and that sometimes people are much fonder of you than you know they are.