The Day That Got Away

Think Mother's Day is a "Hallmark Holiday"? Do you deride it as being meaningless and too commercial? Well, count yourself on the side of the poor, frustrated woman who created it in the first place. She spent the rest of her life trying to turn it back into what she had originally envisioned ~ and, in a final insult, died in a sanatorium whose bill was paid in part by a group of grateful florists: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/126538

Anna Jarvis
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