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If you don’t want this person in your world for the other 364 days of the year, then why would you bother to speak to them on the holidays? 

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The Good Place. It became my favorite show ever when Michael laughed, and it’s been that way ever since. If you haven’t watched it, go and watch it. Go in as blind as you can. It’s worth it.

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AQUARIUS: Your friends are thankful you’re so affectionate. You always make them feel loved and remind them they’re not alone.

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I’m thankful for all those families, new people, new traditions I’ve seen over the years. I’ll take all of what I’ve seen to make my future family’s Thanksgiving just how I always imagined it to be.

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Start choking and get up to get a drink. Interpret this how you like. 

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TAURUS: You are allowed to feel lonely. You are allowed to wish you had someone to kiss beneath the mistletoe. 

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I went back to Ronna’s, ostensibly for tea. Once settled in the kitchen, however, she gave me a hug and kiss, and I responded, and as we have so many times before, we ended up all over one another. I suggested we move from the kitchen, where we were vertical, to the bedroom, where we got horizontal.

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Thanksgiving in Canarsie was wonderful. It was the night before Thanksgiving a dozen years ago when Ronna and I had our first date (Chloe in the Afternoon at the Midwood Theatre and then to the Foursome Diner for a bite; Ronna had the sniffles and wore a blue turtleneck). Who would have imagined we’d still be this close?

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Three words: Deep-frying turkey. It’s a good thing we decided to do it in the driveway, instead of in the garage.

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The beauty in the nature around you, even if it’s just the way the light filters in through the trees.