Like many others, my typical Thanksgiving is very... well... typical. Most years my family gets together with cousins and other family members, and eats a large Thanksgiving meal together, with food provided by my aunt Harriet, who owns and runs and large catering business in Lexington. An abundance of leftovers almost always clogs our refrigerator in the days following the feast.
I do personally enjoy the holiday, but I feel that the entire message of Thanksgiving is incredibly overlooked now because of the Black Friday deals that now start as early as 6PM on THURSDAY (Why even call it Black "Friday"?). On the one day where people are actually supposed to put things in perspective and be thankful for what we have, we have people physically fighting over Samsung TV's. I know that this hypocrisy has been acknowledged before, but the reality is no one really cares. Only in America could we merge together these two completely polar opposite concepts into the span of 48 hours! It is really quite humorous when you think about it.
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