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Mother’s Day is May 12 this year

What is Mother’s Day all about? How did it get started? From the Library of Congress files:

Mother’s Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family, motherhood, and the influence of mothers in society. In 1908, Anna Jarvis holds a memorial service at a West Virginia church to honor her mother, Mrs. Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis, who passed away three years prior. Philadelphia newspaper publishers latch onto the idea and widely promote a day for honoring mothers, to be held on the second Sunday of the month of May.

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