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Father's Day. Not even an acknowledgement....
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Father's Day was invented by the Greetings Card industry, and taken up by the purveyors of tat ....why should you think of your father on one day only? Personally, I think of mine every day - and I know that my offspring think of their dad every day!0
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You may find this interesting showing that it wasn't the card industry which started the idea of Fathers Day at all.Father's Day was invented by the Greetings Card industry, and taken up by the purveyors of tat ....why should you think of your father on one day only? Personally, I think of mine every day - and I know that my offspring think of their dad every day!
http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/uk/father-dayLost my soulmate so life is empty.
I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have -
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Torry_Quine wrote: »You may find this interesting showing that it wasn't the card industry which started the idea of Fathers Day at all.
http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/uk/father-day
Interesting - I'd never heard that before! I knew that we'd adopted it from the USA but not that!0
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