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Regardless, I hear it from unnamed sources that Skinner really does love me.

not for just being here.

last one for me.

They don't give you one for participating.

and did not get an additional heart for that. So I'm thinking the admins are not giving hearts.

This is a fun idea.

Someone could buy 25 and give themselves 25...who'd know?

so I clicked and did it, lol.

When I bought mine virtually no one had any yet - the mods must have just put the banner up about it right before I came to DU today.

Thanks to you or whomever did that.

now.

I thought that is how it worked in years past. Oh well. Thanks

and had none for just participating like in the past. I appreciate whoever gave me the heart!

I am having a blast giving them one.

Someone above says he does see people with no hearts and that he likes to buy hearts for them.

Maybe only star members get automatic single hearts. Or maybe no one gets a heart, not even a single one, unless someone purchases it.

If that is the case, then I have been wrong in thinking no one purchased the single heart for me, and if that is so, then I am sorry and I must say thanks, too.

Maybe it was the poster above, the one who is purchasing hearts for the--ah, "heartless doesn't seem quite right, does it? Maybe he/she saw my empty heart space and decided to buy me a transplant.

I don't know. I was just curious about how the hearts are allocated. Also, I usually have an excellent memory, and when I find myself not sure about what I think I remember, I am driven to find out whether my memory is at fault. At age 62, I am always concerned over the possibility that my usually reliable memory might be letting me down.

I actually know where my first one came from.

(but then, maybe I'm influenced by my one heart condition!)

And got a DU message telling me I'm no longer nobody cuz somebody loves me...

Honestly--I don't participate around here any more to expect anyone to notice, so thanks to whoever cared..you made my evening!

I thought someone had given me a heart. Oh well Nice tradition anyway.

I gave out a bunch of hearts to people who previously had no heart. I think the Admin-heartgiving cycles and not everyone gets one at the same time. For people to assume that the heart they got was from admin is depressing.

previous promotions. (I also was worried because I had one heart and had not said thanks, because I assumed it was from the admins rather than from a generous DUer--which, as it happens, it actually was--from a generous DUer, I mean.)

While the admin may give paying posters a heart(not sure), all are not from admin. I am finding people all over the site with no hearts. Someone thinks you are special!

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I swear I wasn't begging for them! LOL

Look at some longer threads and you'll see that.

am always concerned when I think I remember something but my memory seems to be undermined by stuff that I see in the present.

Mine got broken so many times, I decided to have it removed. Damn crazy glue just wasn't holding.

I just gave some to people who didn't have any - and that was an hour or so ago. Just FYI. I think the hearts from admin would've come at the beginning and an hour ago was well past that.

It's from Skinner, et al.

but every time I've donated during one of these things, the first heart appears almost immediately. That's what happened to me yesterday. The whole heart thing had been going on for some time and I didn't have any, but as soon as I donated, one popped up almost immediately. I could be wrong about the admins, but with the timing it seems like more than a coincidence.

I had just bought a batch and came across a post by you in the first thread I opened after donating. I saw you didn't have a heart yet, so I clicked and gave you one right away. It IS coincidental that you donated at the same time - we share a brain, remember?

I don't believe for one minute that the Admins interfere in any way with the giving of hearts, including giving people a heart when they donate. In years past I've often gone heartless for some time after I donated. The timing of when people get hearts has to do with what threads they happen to post in, and who happens to spot one of their posts.

This year I already had one heart when I first got online yesterday - before I donated. The other hearts have trickled in as I've posted here and there.

DUer named "tblue," so if I actually am the same as another person, I would imagine that would be her--though we have taken to greeting each other as "cuz" when we run into each other on DU.

When I saw all those thank you threads, I got to worrying. I had assumed the heart was some sort of automatic thing, but then everyone was saying thanks--but I wasn't, and it made me feel downright churlish to think that someone had done such a nice thing for me and I had not said thank you for it.

So I am saying thank you now--and a big wide thanks also to all the other kind and generous DUers who have given me hearts!

other DUers who are just happy to spread some love around.

I'm a donor!

Am I loved or not with my one heart?

(I would give you another, but I spent all my hearts yesterday!)

Gave mine all away yesterday, too.

it wasn't me..

That's me right now...

After all, I've been married three times.

If that's not the case, the admins must hate me.

Congratulations!!

I honestly didn't even notice I was there or even approaching that mark. Seems like just yesterday that I joined

Especially since I so obviously misunderstood the meaning of the first!

On edit:

Does anyone know whether the first heart used to be given out by the admins in past Valentine's Day promotions? I am still curious about whether I am remembering that wrong.

complying with the request of MFM, I gave my hearts to people who didn't have any.

I saw someone on another thread saying the same thing...opening posts at random and giving hearts to people who haven't any. There are many kind people on DU.... including you.

I was on the thread where MFM said that. I've linked back at least once. props to MFM!

I try to give back to DU because . . . most of the DUers,
I got to know at a Boston Meet-Up were wonderful.

thank you

I had a boatload to distribute as I had purchased some before I received my star membership hearts from admin.... I think I will have to buy some more.

I feel like the star of "The Millionaire"

Maybe... It could be...

At any rate, a kindness to an outcast kid could very well have been an important lifeline to him.

My sister was a picked-on kid. Today she's very successful and happy, but she absolutely remembers the few kindnesses she received in grade school from kids who defied the "mean girls" to reach out to her.

And back at you for Hubert!

Hopefully no one gives me any more, and they share that with someone else so they can feel the same way.

If I had money I would spend twenty bucks and buy them for the people who don't yet have one.

All my ex-girlfriends were right, I am heartless.

I'm not a monthly subscribed donor, if that makes a difference.

All you folks feeling appreciated out there, take my word for it, you are.

ETA: My apologies. I didn't see the OP's edit at the time of my post.