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Turkey Day Tales: 8 Most Memorable Thanksgivings

Our community members share their sweetest, funniest, most nostalgic holiday stories (9 Photos)

compiled by Erica Policow on Oct 26, 2009 at 11:43AM

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Turkey Day Tales: 8 Most Memorable Thanksgivings

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A Day for Dancing

“After dinner, everyone would squeeze into the living room, and my mom and I would play the piano and everyone would sing. And then my father and uncles would start to dance, usually the hora or tarantella (we are a family of diversity). Then the children and the rest of the adults would join in. After that, whoever was up for it would take a walk in the neighborhood to burn off the ‘turkey fuzzies.’ When we came back, my uncle had a fire in the fireplace and my aunt had warm cider ready. We would hunker down and tell ghost stories, or the older children would read to the younger ones.”

—mrsmarv