Meet the woman who founded Father's Day with a 'renegade spirit'

Meet the woman who founded Father's Day with a 'renegade spirit'

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You could call her the mother of Father’s Day. The late Sonora Smart Dodd launched the celebration of dads in 1910 in her hometown of Spokane, Washington. As a result, she is the one responsible for those annual gifts that run the gamut from embarrassingly silly-looking neckties to kids’ finger…

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