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Why Do I Love Thanksgiving

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The majority of my friends love Thanksgiving, and I love it, too! I just love it not so much for the food or because you’re with family; all of those things are nice too. Me and my family love Thanksgiving because of Black Friday Shopping. Oh sure we cook food and say a prayer together and all of that good stuff, but while we do all of those nice things we look at all the sales papers. We write several lists down of the items everyone wants buy for the sales. We map out where everyone will go and what items everyone will be responsible for. This is a family effort; mainly because this is our Christmas shopping together. Our ritual is everyone cook whatever dish they plan on cooking, we pray, we eat,, and after doing all of that we look at sales

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