Edwardian Valentine Greeting Card with Children & Heart

Behold the Victorian romantic power play nobody asked for: a boy in a red vest kneeling on the ground, presenting a red heart and flowers to a curly-haired girl in a white dress who is very pointedly looking away from him — the original 'left on read.' The text helpfully informs us 'If you'll be my Sweetheart, I will be your Beau,' which is less a love poem and more a binding contractual negotiation between two children who appear to be roughly four years old. Looming overhead, a stabbed and skewered red heart dangles from a gold pin like a tiny crime scene, which is honestly the most accurate Valentine's Day symbolism ever committed to cardstock. Love's Greeting, indeed — because when you think romance, you naturally think a kneeling suitor, a disinterested recipient, and a suspended impaled heart watching over the whole transaction.