It's a day to celebrate good dads, and remember good ones who are gone
21 June 2020 - 00:00
Father's Day, like Halloween and Juneteenth, is a tradition made popular in the US, whence it spread to the rest of the world. In Greenwood cemetery in Spokane, Washington, is a gravestone with this inscription: "Sonora Smart Dodd, Founder of Father's Day, 1882-1978."..
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