I confess, Thanksgiving felt like a Golden Girls episode. I was the youngest one there. It was fun. I sat on a high backed stool drinking champagne and listening to my roommate's 94 year old grandmother tell the tale of her aunt coming to Oregon from Pennsylvania in a horse and buggy. They lost the horse and buggy in the Platte River and had to make it the rest of the way with oxen. After dinner when I was washing dishes her daughter, the 65 year old aunt, told me after mother has passed I'm outta here. I'm going to Italy and get me some men.
Dinner was awesome. Everything. I do confess, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy and pecan pie are some of my most favorite foods in the world. My roomies basted the turkey every hour- on the outside plus they injected it was this long needle on the inside. I think it was the moistest turkey I have ever had.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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