Where have all the SweetTarts gone?

I love SweetTarts, especially the heart-shaped ones that come out at Valentine’s Day. I. Love. Them. Way more than the average person. I’ll eat them until my mouth hurts from the tartness, then eat some more. I’ll eat them in combos: blue and pink, yellow and purple or pink. One time, someone at work gave us all SweetTarts for Valentine’s Day. I ate all mine SweetTarts and as many other people’s as I could convince to give them to me as possible. Before lunch. Which at work is at 11 a.m., so it was a lot of sweet and tart in a few hours.

So, yesterday, when I went out to do some grocery shopping and get some essentials for my house, I thought I’d check out the clearance aisles of Valentine’s candy and get some SweetTart hearts. I went to three stores. And there were none to be had. None. My Valentine’s treat for myself seemed to not even be in existence this year.

So I’m sans-SweetTarts this year. And I’m still very sad about it. So if you happen to locate some, let me know. Or send them my way.

Because I really, really would like some.