Anna Jarvis, the founder of Mother’s Day, must be spinning in her grave and hating Hallmark for all it stands for. Commercialism. Anna worked tirelessly, by writing letters to newspapers, businessmen, religious leaders, and politicians, to make Mother’s Day a national holiday. She hoped that a son or daughter would honor their mother for all the sacrifices she had made and she used the singular mother’s day rather than the plural. She never intended the day to include all mothers, …

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