It seems only appropriate that on Valentine’s Day we are announcing the winner of our first-annual Lost Love Memory Contest: “Veronica.”

Mike wins the lovely keepsake Chocolate Cherry Heart Box from the Chukar Cherry Co.! Looks like a cherry, shaped like a heart, filled with a favorite Chocolate Cherry Quartet including Amaretto Rainiers, Cherry Bings, Classic Milk and Cabernet cherries.

Thanks to everyone who entered. We’ll be announcing more exciting contests and prizes on Five More Minutes With shortly, so please stay tuned.

Meanwhile, here is Mike’s prize-winning Lost Love Memory–“Veronica”–for all to enjoy once again.

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Veronica. My one true love. My only.

For 10 years we tried to connect…never did.

After another 10 quiet years, through the magic of the Internet, we reconnect.

My life is a million miles away and she, now, is finally ready.

But I am not.

If I had five more minutes with her…it would be those last five minutes in 1997 when she left my loft and we didn’t speak for a decade.

I’d take those five minutes and change everything.

For to this day, I burn for her.