stackyFACTSForget romantic poetry; the nineteenth century loved petty insults. Alongside standard romantic cards, people would anonymously mail 'vinegar valentines' featuring hideous caricatures and cruel poems purely to inform people they were ugly, obnoxious, or unloved.
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