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The woman who created Mother's Day spent her last years trying to cancel it.
In 1908, Anna Jarvis held the first Mother's Day service in a church in Grafton, West Virginia, with white carnations as the sign. Within a few years it became law. Then the florists raised the price of the white carnation, added a red one, and the card companies started printing cards. Anna fought them in court, spent most of her inheritance on lawyers, and died in 1948, still wanting the holiday gone.
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