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Write A Narrative Essay About Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving dinner
Thanksgiving should be a day to spend with family and enjoy the company of everyone I remember when I was younger, my family use to get together to cook and help set up the tables. Though, the past few years my family started to distance themselves and it’s getting worse and worse by the years goes by or I just started to realized it the older I get. Every year in thanksgiving every family has to bring a dish that’s when the drama begins there’s always that one aunt that always says she doesn’t have money so she not bring anything just happens to be the same aunt every year. Everyone knows that the holidays are around the corner and gets when family gets together. When I started to check my Facebook I see all those families taking a group picture and mine are in little groups not even talking to each other just with people within their house.
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Finally started talking they said something about cousin graduating in December from OU and of course my tia Rosa started saying unnecessary things about her daughters were better than anybody because they’re the only that have gone to college how they are the first ones, the truth is they’re the old ones so of course the first ones going to a university. My whole family has been to college they went to OCCC but they didn’t continued studying because most already had a family. Anyways, that all we hear on thanksgiving her daughter are better than everyone.
Thanksgiving is the day that “The Pilgrims recognized that everything we have is a gift from God – even our sorrows. Their Thanksgiving tradition was established to honor God and thank Him for His blessings and His grace” (Farah). In my family we have forgotten the true meaning of thanking everyone always so mad over things that we can’t even enjoy spending time together without having something to argue

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