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What exactly is Thanksgiving? Historians tell us one of the first Thanksgiving feasts was held on December 4th, 1619 in the newly-established Virginia Colony as a celebration of the freshly reaped harvest. The average person today will tell you it is a day when Americans gather around the table for oven-roasted turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and the traditional trimmings followed by long bouts of watching American football. The first idea, albeit functional, and the second idea, modernized toward the standard pomp and circumstance of a modern-day commercialized holiday in my own eyes fail to capture the meaning of Thanksgiving.
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