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Thanksgiving Alone is Not Lonely

It had been a busy semester and the Tuesday before Thanksgiving I arrived back home from an exhausting American Academy of Religion meeting. I picked up my dog, and I decided on my plan for Thanksgiving. Walk the dog early and spend the rest of the day with Turner Classic Movies. I was mind, soul, bone weary.

Wednesday, I tried to catch up on reading newspapers and magazines. It was an hour or so before the grocery stores would close when I found myself in the store shopping for the fixings for a Thanksgiving meal. My it-is- time-to-cook-Thanksgiving