Personally, we’ve always assumed that Mother’s Day was a Hallmark-FTD creation intended to sell greeting cards and flowers. But we would be wrong, of course. The American version of Mother’s Day was created by Anna Jarvis in 1908 — using the second anniversary of her own mother’s death as the day to celebrate. Jarvis would later denounce the holiday’s commercialization and devote the rest of her life trying to get it removed from the calendar. Here are some (other) strange parts of the Mother’s Day story that are maybe not so strange:
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