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By Dr. Glenn Mollette

Valentine’s Day is a befuddling time - bewildering, confusing.

Flowers that you would buy to give to someone are probably already tripled in price. Our local grocery store sometimes sells a dozen roses for under $30 but they will be over $70 during Valentine’s season. You can’t go a week early and save either. They are smart about that and have already priced them higher.

Those Valentine boxes of candy have been out for awhile. If you want to buy a cheap box you had better go now. A retailing friend told me about a man walking in his store late on Valentine’s D...