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apple of someone's eye n

(idiomatic) The object of somebody's affections; a person (or sometimes a thing) that someone strongly prefers; a favourite, a loved one. Today, the second Sunday of May in 2024, 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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