Hearts - Free Email Stationery Download and E-Card

Little hearts graced the coins in Cyrene, a Greek colony in today's Libya, some 2,000 years ago. The reason is simple: the seed from which city's riches sprang looked like that.
Silphium sold like crazy across the ancient Mediterranean, but it was notoriously difficult to cultivate. In Cyrene, the potent fennel flourished.
Either way, the Silphium seed may have given us the heart shape that resembles a human heart so little:
›› Let your heart speak with its own tongue, and with this lovely stationery. (Outlook, Outlook Express)