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Thanksgiving is a time for gathering friends and family. For me, it is a holiday that transcends its origins. It is a time of reflection and of generosity, an openness to giving and receiving blessings.
For more than half of my adult life, I lived outside the United States, working in countries where the knowledge of Thanksgiving was more a testament to the prodigiousness of American cultural infusion than anything else.
Even though not a recognized day off, I remained steadfast in my dedication to Thanksgiving. Every year, I hosted a large gathering of non-American friends in the evening, serving creative takes on a traditional menu. And every year, true to their cinematic understanding of the holiday, one of the guests would ask when the dinner speeches on ”what we are thankful for” began. And thus, fiction became a reality.
