If you ask me Fall is the cruelest season. The days turn on you. One day you are seduced by the false promise of a mild sun, the next is cold, brutish. and short. Christmas starts earlier and earlier each year, which means my Holiday Wretchedness lasts longer and longer as well.
Thank God, literally, for Thanksgiving! It's the one event of the year that gives me the chance to be honest about the way I feel -- full of love and and grateful for my good luck and above average friends.
Every other holiday, in my experience, has been perverted by greed and twisted into something ugly and crass. How Thanksgiving has managed to escape that fate I don't know. But it's one more thing for which I'm thankful.
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