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Although a classic Valentine’s Day standby, the conversation heart is a feat of engineering we don’t often take time to appreciate. Necco Sweethearts have gone through hell and back to make it to store shelves this year, following the closure of the Necco plant in 2018, the purchase of the Sweethearts brand later that year by Spangler Candy Company, the transfer of delicate conversation-heart-printing equipment from Massachusetts to a new home in Ohio, a delay in 2019 production, damaged machinery, higher demand leading to shortages in 2020, and now, finally, a return to relative normalcy just in time for a world that is anything but normal.