re: Who hates days like V-Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day...

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The commercialization of the American holiday began very early, and only nine years after the first official Mother's Day had become so rampant that Anna Jarvis herself became a major opponent of what the holiday had become,[26][27] spending all her inheritance and the rest of her life fighting what she saw as an abuse of the celebration.[26] She decried the practice of purchasing greeting cards, which she saw as a sign of being too lazy to write a personal letter. She was arrested in 1948 for disturbing the peace while protesting against the commercialization of Mother's Day, and she finally said that she "...wished she would have never started the day because it became so out of control ..."[27] She died later that year.

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