Red Rose/White Rose Question.

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Who remembers the Red Rose/White Rose Mother’s Day Practice? Was it widespread? Regional? Generational? Does it still go on? Is it news to you?
 
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Who remembers the Red Rose/White Rose Mother’s Day Practice? Was it widespread? Regional? Generational? Does it still go on? Is it news to you?
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Yes. You wear red if your mother is still living and white if she is not. Definitely was still going on to some degree before COVID.
 
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Who remembers the Red Rose/White Rose Mother’s Day Practice? Was it widespread? Regional? Generational? Does it still go on? Is it news to you?
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Grew up doing it. My grandfather, who lived next door, always had red and white rose bushes in his rose garden just so he could have a white rose ready when he went to church on Mother's Day. Now days, I just go to Harris Teeter and buy a white rose bud for church. Grew up in Eastern NC, closest beach (Topsail) was an hour drive away. A bit far for a lark, but close enough that if someone called from a pier to tell you the mullet were running, you had could get to the beach before the run ended.
 
So there once was a church which used to distribute red roses to “all the mothers” in the congregation on Mothers Day. The preacher even asked “all of the mothers to stand and be recognized”. Until it became known that not all of the women in attendance were mothers. For one reason or another, they never had children. One Mothers Day, about half of the women didn’t get a rose, and they stayed seated during recognition time. The practice was soon abandoned.
 
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