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Nietzsche Wishes You an Ambivalent Mother’s Day

  The cultural institution of Mother’s Day began with a single massive flower delivery. In 1908, Anna Jarvis, widely regarded as the founder of the holiday, delivered five hundred white carnations to Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia, where her mother had taught Sunday school for decades. It was the start of a Nietzsche Wishes You an Ambivalent Mother’s Day

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