How the founder of Mother's Day died alone, childless and penniless, in an insane asylum
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“She told me, with terrible bitterness, that she was sorry she had ever started Mother’s Day.”
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Original Title: TIL Anna Marie Jarvis who created “Mother’s Day” then resented the commercialization of the holiday, picketed flower & card sales then tried to organize campaigns to abolish the holiday leaving her penniless and was committed to an insane asylum partly paid by flower & card companies to keep her.