Celebrating day of love
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Eroll Escobar kisses his partner Princess Madrolejo as they pose for photographers while carrying a 16-feet and 200 kg Albino Burmese Python during a Valentine's Day presentation inside a Malabon zoo, north of Manila. (Reuters/Romeo Ranoco)
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A man carrying a large teddy bear buys a rose on a street in Shanghai. (AFP photo/Peter Parka)
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Passers by walk in front of a cake shop displaying a St. Valentine's Day announcement at the Ginza district in Tokyo. (AFP photo/Toshifumi Kitamura)
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A heart-shaped sculpture made of sand and stone is seen during low tide at a beach in Hong Kong on Valentine's Day. (Reuters/Bobby Yip)
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African penguin Howard carries a valentine heart written by a visitor to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Newly married couples kiss during a mass wedding as part of Valentine's Day celebrations at a shopping mall in suburban Manila. (AFP photo/Ted Aljibe)
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A couple takes a photograph with a mobile phone in front of a red heart decoration on the Valentine's Day in Wuhan, Hubei province. (Reuters/Stringer)
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Couples kiss during a flashmob organised by a local television station on the eve of Valentine's Day in the southern Russian city of Stavropol. REUTERS/Eduard Korniyenko
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A veiled Egyptian flower vendor, center, follows a couple near Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian uprising, in Cairo, Egypt on the eve of Valentine's Day. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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A couple near the historic Taj Mahal on the eve of Valentine's Day in Agra. PTI Photo
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A PETA member offers a rose to an auto-rickshaw driver during their campaign for vegetarianism on the eve of Valentine's Day in Mumbai . PTI Photo
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A balloon vendor waits for customers on the eve of Valentine's Day in Beijing. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
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Girls purchase greeting cards and gifts at a store on the eve of Valentine’s Day in Patna. Agencies
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Artist Harwinder Singh Gill displays a creation in the shape of two hearts, made from about 600 buttons to celebrate Valentine's Day, in Amritsar. REUTERS/Munish Sharma
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Valentine's Day cards written by Chinese couples are placed beside an ancient willow tree on the eve of Saint Valentine's Day in the Qianmen district of Beijing. Young Chinese couples have embraced the Western concept of Valentine's Day with hawkers selling roses and chocolates on street corners and outside shopping centers. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON
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A sales lady offers flowers for sale along a main street on the eve of Valentine's Day in Manila. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
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Chinese couples take part in a kissing competition ahead of Valentine's Day in Shanghai, China. AP photo
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Women march through downtown Sydney demanding lingerie themed Valentine's Day gifts during a rally sponsored by a lingerie company in Australia. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
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Thai-Swedish couple William Timhede, 23, left, and Napatsawan Timhede, 39, kiss as they hang on sling wire in a show known as a "flying wedding" as part of an adventure-themed wedding ceremony in Prachinburi province, Thailand on the eve of Valentine's Day. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)
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