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Mother's Day
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Different
countries celebrate Mother's Day ____________ various days of the year
because the day has a number of different origins. One school of thought
____________ this day ____________ from a custom of mother worship in
____________ Greece. Mother worship — which ____________ a festival
to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and (mythology), the wife of Cronus;
was ____________ around the Vernal Equinox ____________ Asia ____________
and eventually in Rome itself from the Ides of March (March 15 to March
18). The Romans ____________ had another holiday, Matronalia, ____________
____________ dedicated to Juno, though mothers were usually given gifts
on this day.
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