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Over The Edge - "Thanksgiving – the real story"
Over The Edge - "Thanksgiving – the real story"
On Thanksgiving Day around the country, people will be sleeping in, reading the paper leisurely, and taking long strolls, anticipating a traditional holiday feast. Mothers will not be among them. Instead, they will be up at 5 a.m. trying to defrost the turkey with a hair dryer because it won’t fit in the microwave. Waiting for them on the kitchen counter are 15 pounds of sweet potatoes to peel and cook, a bushel of beans to snap and grandmother’s recipe for cornbread stuffing that begins, “Take out a good-size wash pot.”