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1st Cortana letter
Posted By: TursasDate: 6/8/01 8:58 a.m.

I've brought this up with Hamish a time or two and wanted to put it directly to the community instead.

The date of the first Cortana letter is 15 February. What day does this date follow? 14 February. What happens on 14 February every year to make it so special? It's Valentines Day, of course.

But of more historical significance is what made Valentine's Day the thing we all know as V-day today; several massacres. Way back during Roman rule there was this priest named Valentine who decided to marry people who weren't allowed to marry by law (I can't remember the specifics, sorry). The authorities got wind of this and cracked down on him.

Several hundred years later a couple of gangsters got rid of their enemies in a hail of submachine gun fire on the same day.

The significance of all this? By writing on the 15th of February, Cortana acknowledges that she's won the day after the slaughter. It's symbolism, and Hamish didn't agree with me when I brought it up, but there you are.

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