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Thanksgiving And Gratitude

Making your own magic

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Addison Del Mastro
Nov 27, 2025
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Anyone who thinks a meal isn’t a sacrifice has never cooked for 12 people.

(That’s a remark on holiday cooking by way of Eucharistic theology.)

One thing I’m realizing—still, I guess—is that hosting a holiday and doing the cooking is different from being a kid and just having all of that stuff happen around you. That’s one of the things a pleasant childho…

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