My first _________ of the magic he could bring to Valentine's Day came when I was six. For several days I had been cutting out valentines for my classmates. Each of us was to decorate a "mailbox" and put it on our desk for others to give us cards. That box and its _________ ushered in a _________ of bittersweet memories of my entrance into a world of _________ contest markd by the number of cards received, the teasing about boyfriends/girlfriends and the _________care I gave to the card from the cutest boy in class.