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Let holidays be story time

Thanksgiving a great time to revisit shared pasts

(MCT) — Sometime in the next few weeks — Thanks-giving Day, maybe — you’re likely to sit down at a holiday table with family members and start trading stories about your shared past.

Preserving family stories, I think, is one mission of the holidays. No other time of year is as conducive to sitting down together to talk, to remember, to stitch the pieces of the past into a crazy quilt.

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