Life
By Heather Marshall Byers and Josie Roberts
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February 14, 2000
Inspired by high profile publications such as Seventeen magazine, The Cavalier Daily went on a mission to uncover the University's most X-treme Valentine's Day memories.
What follows is the uncut, hardcore truth behind real life men and women's love trials on the most abhorred and yet most adored holiday of the year.
V-Day as D-Day
"I knew I didn't really like this girl anymore, and it just happened to be February 14th when I broke up with her," said Ryan Hayes, a visiting freshman from the University of Central Florida who was walking through Newcomb Plaza when The Cavalier Daily tracked him down.
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"If I'd stayed with her, I would have had to buy presents for someone who was gonna be gone in a few days anyway," Hayes said, justifying his junior high school break-up.
First-year College student Will Boland committed a similar act.
"We had an elementary school dance that night that I didn't want to go to," Boland said.