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5 cheesy Valentine’s Day rom-coms full of love, romance and lots and lots of chocolate

Dan Jeannotte, left, and Eloise Mumford in the Hallmark movie "Sweeter Than Chocolate."

For the sake of everyone around me, I usually limit my intake of cheesy rom-coms to just the Christmas season. But this year I’ve let some of that festive cheese ooze over into Valentine’s Day and traded in mistletoe for cupid’s arrows.

I spent all of January doing some serious research, digging around in the Hallmark movie vault. My parameters were simple: all films to be considered had to be centered on the magic of Valentine’s Day, and they had to be

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