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Happy International Thanksgiving!
It has been a long, long time since I've written. I will fill you in later as to why, but for now I'll just say I have been working a lot. This weekend, however...Thanksgiving! Not that you can tell around here. There is some Christmas stuff for sale in the stores, but Thanksgiving is obviously not a big deal in a country that is not the United States. This was a regular work week, but since there is not any Thanksgiving advertising I didn't really feel the holiday until I saw so many friends holiday-ing with family on Facebook. About a week ago I realized that this could be my one opportunity to see the entire Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade! Every year I intend to get up in time to see it, which means 9 a.m. And every year I sleep in so long I barely see Santa at the end. My plan for Thursday after work was set: watch the Macy's Parade at 6 p.m. local time. I invited a couple of friends to join me. Then on Friday we decided to have a Thanksgiving potluck in...