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yepper12
73 / male
Jeffersonville, Pennsylvania, US
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HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!!!!
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!!!! 
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| May 8, 2011, 10:32 |
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Re: HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!!!!
Happy Mother's Day to ya'all...I'm spending the day with mine.
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| May 8, 2011, 11:29 |
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Iwant2kssuallovr
62 / female
Bendover, Florida, US
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Re: HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!!!!
The tradition of Mothers Day started with the ancient Greeks who celebrated their annual spring festival in honor of Rhea, the mother of many Gods and Goddesses in the Greek mythology.
In UK, Mothers Day celebrations started by the name of Mothering Sunday, several years before the tradition found its roots in UK. Mothering Sunday came to be celebrated following the practice in UK of 17th century wherein children of poor families were send to work as apprentice and domestic servants with the rich. These children were allowed to visit their 'Mother Church' or the Cathedral of their home town annually in the middle of the fasting month of Lent. Children met their mothers after visiting the church and presented them with flowers and special 'Mothering Cakes'.
A loving daughter from West Virginia, Anna Jarvis is recognised as a 'Founder of Mothers Day' and 'Mother of Mothers Day'. Anna kept the word of her activist mother, Mrs Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis who once expressed a wish that someone should strive to provide mothers their due recognition. After her mothers death in 1905, Anna's determination became strong and she along with several supporters started lobbying for the official holiday on Mothers Day by writing letters to the people in power. To celebrate Mothers Day, Anna began to send her mothers favorite flowers, carnations in her local church requesting people to wear them in honor of their mothers. The idea gained immense popularity over the years and in 1910, West Virginia became the first state to recognize Mothers Day holiday. On May 8, 1914 President Woodrow Wilson signed a Joint Resolution designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.
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| May 8, 2011, 15:02 |
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Grandelf
64 / male
Northern, Michigan, US
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Re: HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!!!!
Happy Mothers day out there...
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| May 8, 2011, 17:03 |
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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!!!!
yepper happy mother's day to all the moms out there..
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| May 8, 2011, 17:23 |
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funlovingpair
59 / couple
Frozen Tundra, Minnesota, US
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Re: HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!!!!
Happy Mothers Day to all the moms out there.
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| May 8, 2011, 21:06 |
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