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Opinion: My father's Valentine's Day cufflinks

NPR's Scott Simon recalls two elephant cufflinks his mother gave his father for Valentine's Day years after their divorce, and how that gift speaks of a love greater than romantic love.
Scott Simon's cufflinks, gifted from his mother to his father one Valentine's Day, after they had divorced.

I came across an old Valentine's Day gift this week. A pair of cufflinks, showing white plastic elephants in red shawls, now slightly scuffed.

My mother bought the cufflinks for my father when she saw them in a case on the ground floor of the

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