Actually I think it is a really
sweet thing to treat our significant others, who give us so much suppost, nice on a special day.
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Sweetest Day is a day similar to Valentine's when people share romance or appreciation for one another. It occurs in October on the third Saturday of the month.
The holiday has its origins in 1922, when an Ohio man by the name of Herbert Birch Kingston wanted to spread joy to the neglected, orphans, and others with similar fates. As a candy business employee, Kingston and others in the Cleveland area began to give treats to the orphans and the poor. When actress Ann Pennington was in Cleveland, she celebrated Sweetest Day by giving out candy to more than two thousand newspaper boys as a sign of gratitude for their work. And Theda Bara gave away thousands of boxes containing chocolates to hospitals in the area, as well as to those who saw her movie.
Sweetest Day is celebrated primarily in the Great Lakes area of the United States – such as Ohio and Michigan - but is has slowly moved on to other parts of the country as well. For 2006, Sweetest Day is celebrated on October 21.
