As Thanksgiving approaches, we would do well to reflect on we are grateful for, instead of on how much we would like to murder our relatives for already playing Christmas music when it’s not even December, for goodness’ sake.

I have to make allowances. After all, maybe they’re grateful for Christmas music. Maybe this is their way of expressing it.

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Alexandra Paskhaver is a software engineer and writer. Both jobs require knowing where to stick semicolons, but she’s never quite; figured; it; out. For more information, check out her website at https://apaskhaver.github.io.

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