My Family Is Thanksgiving

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Every Thanksgiving (the fourth thursday of November) my family comes together at my grandmas house to give thanks. Everyone has their own way of celebrating thanksgiving and going to tell you how my family does Thanksgiving.
The first thing we do for thanksgiving is get together at my grandma's house in the afternoon. All of my mom's side of the family comes over except for a few family members that live out of town. All of my cousins, aunts, uncles, and my mom’s cousins come to my grandmas house. Sometimes people show up late because they were at their other family’s Thanksgiving, but that’s okay as long as I get to spend time with them. My grandmas has a rather small house but we all fit, only if the kids are playing outside, the men are

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