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On the recordMay 12, 2006
one last item, a very important statement, and then we will close down. But it is very important and people will recognize why. This Sunday, millions of families around the world will celebrate their moms. I was changing my reservations around. I know a lot of people are scurrying around for reservations. I should be cooking at home that day, I guess, but I am looking for an appropriate place for reservations, shifting it from Sunday afternoon to Sunday evening. Restaurants will be packed on Sunday. Living rooms will be packed full, crammed full of aunts and uncles and fidgety children. Families will warmly ``remember when'' to show their moms they love them. I have three boys, and they let me know all the time how much they love their mom. But I don't know where all three boys are going to be. They are going to be traveling all over the country today, so I am trying to get them together as well--all the challenges of Mother's Day. Mother's Day, as we all know, is the busiest long distance calling day of the year. It accounts for more than one-fifth of all the floral purchases made for the holidays that 1 day. We typically start the day by going to church and then gathering either in the afternoon or the evening--a tradition that millions and millions and millions of people will celebrate and have celebrated over the years. The celebrations of our moms have gone back millennia. The ancient Greeks celebrated a holiday in honor of a mythological mother of gods.…
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William H. Frist
Tennessee

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