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　　their parents on this day.

　　Many people

　　27 the day through a lot of activities such as gift-giving and card giving. Some children 28 their grandparents to school for a day where they take special lessons. Some students 29 storytelling activities that relate to their grandparents, as well as picture or music competitions where children use a story about their grandparents in their 30.

　　About four million greeting cards are

　　31 within the United States each year on National Grandparents Day. This day is also a

　　32 for people to appreciate and express their 33 to their grandparents through

　　34 actions such as making a phone call and inviting their grandparents for dinner. People living in nursing homes may

　　35

　　a visit form their grandchildren.

　　National Grandparents Day has more than one

　　36. Some people consider it to have been first proposed by Michael Goldgar in the 1970s after he visited his aunt in an Atlanta nursing home. Others

　　37 Marian Lucille Herndon McQuade to have been the main

　　38 of National Grandparents Day. Throughout the 1970s McQuade worked hard to

　　39 people about the important contributions senior citizens made and the contributions that they would be willing to make

　　40 asked. She also urged(强烈要求) people to take good care of a grandparent, not for one day a year and not for material giving,

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