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Dear Old Dad

  • June 17, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Today is Father’s Day, when we say thanks to the 70 million or so dads in the United States. In 1909, Sonora Smart Dodd got the idea for Father’s Day as a way to honor her own dad, and it became an official U.S. holiday in 1972.

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