Thankful

My mother always bent over backward to make guests comfortable, to the point that her own family occasionally felt embarrassed and out of place. There were two aspects of Thanksgiving dinner that often gave me the creeps when I was young: 1. Thanksgiving with certain relatives meant someone would say Grace (see below). 2. Thanksgiving with certain other relatives meant everyone in turn would have to say out loud something they were thankful for. The first still bothers me a lot though I try not to let it show. The second was more of a nuisance since I ought to have thought about such things in advance of a holiday called Thanksgiving, but usually was wracking my brain at the last second for something to say that was different and wouldn't sound idiotic to anyone including myself. And in that case getting called on first was a blessing because you could always be genuinely thankful for the relatives that came to visit that day.

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