V is for...

By lani 13 Feb 2002

yahoo had a valentine’s day reminder with “show her you love her” and a dozen red roses. ok, now did you ever hear the one about victorian flower meanings? i have too, but someone one told me that its validity is under debate. i like pretending anyway, that secret messages were sent from lovers (madame bovary style…ok someone someone, please make a literati sutra or something.) or suitors. that the victorians promoted hidden meanings and were prone to overanalysis. and that maybe they would have accepted me…ack, the world is cruel!…jk, they probably would have been like “what is this crazy little asian girl doing here?”. Anyway, 9 out of ten sources have stated that the meaning of red roses is “passionate love”. So this is the question i pose to you…would sending your lover a dozen roses be like a booty call?