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My Worst Thanksgiving Ever

Holiday Hijinks

A hilarious account of how the holiday meal can go seriously wrong.

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Doomed, but I didn’t know it. I wanted to show off my new cooking skills in my liberated open kitchen, in the late 1960s, when Julia Child ousted American housewives from their kitchen closets by turning the kitchen into a family room.

So, my first (and last) Thanksgiving in our tract...

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