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Anna Jarvis and the history of Mother's Day

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Uploaded by on May 9, 2008

May 11, 2008, is the 100th Anniversary of Mother's Day. The holiday began in Grafton, West Virginia.
Emily Corio has more on the West Virginia connection to Mother's Day, and how the person who started it all later lamented what the holiday turned into.

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  • I wonder why the said that she was the mother that inspired Mother's Day... when she had no children.........

  • Spent her entire inharitence fighting a commerical holiday only to end in poverty and alone with no children or lover hmm...sad.

  • Happy Mother's day!!!!!!!!!!

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