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My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News.

You know, I don't know if the music is forever, but it does sort of give me a little something as we get started

into scoop. I feel like I'm sort of tapping my, tapping my toes, snapping my fingers. I almost

said tapping my toes, which I don't think would be correct. It's great to see you on this May

Monday as we get started with a brand new week of news. And we have a lot of different stories to pull

together today.

As you may hear, I sound a little different. And it's a mystery as to why. It's a mystery as to why.

We're diagnosing me according to our live feed with allergies. I hope this is okay.

I feel like we can still communicate. I feel like it's a little raspy. Maybe it'll keep things interesting. If I lose my voice completely in the middle of the broadcast, we're just going to roll with it. I think we're going to be okay, though. Here's what I'm going to diagnose myself with. Motherhood. I'm going to diagnose myself with Motherhood. I think this voice is from Motherhood in May, where things get really busy, as we talked about last week. And I had a lot of disruptive sleep over the last couple weeks. This is very normal. But I think it all caught up with me a little bit too much, a little too much of everything, perhaps, a little too much

of working late and then the kids waking up, a little bit too much of pollen in the air, just a little

too much. So I can diagnose myself with motherhood because we're going into Mother's Day weekends.

You see how I tie that together? And I actually have a great story that's going to kick us off today

just to get us into Mother's Day weekend. You know, Mother's Day and the concept for Mother's Day

was really inspired during the Civil War. The woman that you're seeing on your screen right now is

Anna Jarvis. Anna Jarvis really admired her mother.

Her mother was perhaps someone who we would call a social activist or a civil activist today because her mother really wanted to help folks, especially in Appalachia,

who were very poor, just figure out basic needs,

you know, basic hygiene, not to try to keep their families healthy.

At that time in the United States, you know, it was very possible that you could give birth

to a child that would not make it to adulthood.

And Anna Jarvis was part of a family that experienced that.

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