#SupportingJournalism: Patricia's claims to be selling #Romance, but "I do not think [that word] means what you think it means" ... or Does It? @issuu #Romantic

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Whatever you think of the retailer below, their money's good enough to help support the journalism of the February 5 (2020) Oklahoma Gazette:
... Romance???
Well, "Romance" has probably come to mean all the 'inappropriate stuff' the ad implies. But let's dig around 'that word' (below-hyperlinked to a list of all the locations of Patricia's Gift Shop) and see how its current meaning is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which our lexicon stands ...
The word “Romance” is built on words that mean “in the |Roman Style (in a |Language developed from |Vulgar Latin instead of Frankish)” (a language in which were written Medieval Tales of Chivalric |Adventures full of Marvelous Incidents and |Heroic Deeds, and from there the word took the sense of "Adventurous Story of Love & Love-Affairs") 
or "to |Recite such a |Narrative in the French Vernacular" or "to Court as a Lover" or "to |Invent |Fictitious Stories."
I'm sure that most of the customers of Patricia's are 'married couples' (or at-least 'couples who've been together long enough for "the new to wear off"') who use the items they buy there to remember the days when they were still 'courting' to find out how good they'd be together (back when they could still believe one another's 'fictitious stories' and could behave for a while as if they were all true!)

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