mother's day is a scam
name a weirder holiday. i can't!
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When I was growing up, a fight would always break out on mother’s day. No matter what we did to celebrate, we never quite got it right and my mother would end up crestfallen. I would either blame myself, or blame my mom, which now that I think about it, seems pretty convenient for the government! Never did I imagine that perhaps we had all been set up to fail.
There’s no holiday quite as dystopian as mother’s day, especially in a place like the United States. I mean think about it…