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How greeting cards turned minor holidays into traditions

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Events like Sweetest Day are completely fabricated celebrations pushed entirely by the greeting card industry. It is an astonishingly bold move to simply point at a random calendar day and declare it mandatory to buy a loved one a glittery envelope.

How greeting cards turned minor holidays into traditions
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