Compare And Contrast Essay On Thanksgiving

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Does your mom let you eat with your hands on thanksgiving because that's how they ate in the first thanksgiving. My mom would beat me if I ate with my hands.Would your mom beat you if you ate with your hands.My mom would be like “I spent all day making food for you and this is how you treat it”. I'm just playing but heres some differences and similarities First Similar thing is that We both have one of the most Scrumptious thing you could have on thanksgiving. And if you were thinking that I was gonna say cranberry sauce you were wrong pumpkin pie.Pumpkin pie is my favourite thing on thanksgiving and I found out that the people on the first thanksgiving ate pumpkin pie too.If you like it as much as I do you would be like they had pumpkin

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