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close-knit adj

Of a group: closely connected or linked, as by a common bond, culture, or identity. Today, the second Sunday of May in 2025, is celebrated in many countries as Mother’s Day. Anna Jarvis first held a memorial ceremony at the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia, U.S.A., (now the International Mother’s Day Shrine) to honour her deceased mother and all mothers on Sunday, May 10, 1908.

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