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How Single Girls Spend Valentine’s Day

1. You sleep in because you don’t have to wake up for anyone today.

2. Thank goodness you don’t have to slave away in the kitchen cooking breakfast in bed for anyone.

3. But that also means you don’t have anyone to cook you a fancy breakfast. Packaged food it is, I guess.

4. Things could be worse. Pop-Tarts still taste pretty darn good at 11 a.m., so you tell yourself that you don’t need a man to enjoy the day.

5. You walk to your afternoon class seeing people with heart-shaped balloons and bouquets of roses and roll your eyes.

6. Sure, it’s sad that you aren’t receiving any gifts, but it also means you’re not spending a bunch of money on a significant other.

7. Even when you seclude yourself in your room, you can’t seem to escape the onslaught of PDA. Facebook is the worst culprit, with its never-ending feed of lovey-dovey relationship statuses.

8. But as much as you try to play the “happily single” role, there is a part of you that’s like:

9. And loneliness starts to kick in a bit.

10. But your bitterness toward the couple-centric holiday eases up when one of your best friends surprises you with a Valentine’s gift.

11. And you two plan an epic girl’s night together, because GALENTINE’S DAY! 

12. And you consume an ungodly amount of chocolate.

13. After an evening with great company and indulgent food, you decide that spending Valentine’s Day as a single woman isn’t all that bad!

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Connie is a professional and creative writing major at Carnegie Mellon University. She is currently obsessed with pole fitness, pumpkin bread, and '80s fashion.