A Homesickness Remedy for the Holiday Week

Cari Nazeer
Forge
Published in
2 min readNov 23, 2020

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View of person’s crossed legs/feet on the sofa with TV in background.
Photo: Photographer, Basak Gurbuz Derman/Getty Images

Most Thanksgivings, from the moment you shrug off your coat in a relative’s hallway to start the flurry of hugs, you already know how the next few hours are going to play out.

Holiday time is a story we tell ourselves, over and over, beat by familiar beat: The smell of Grandma’s famous mac and cheese in the oven, the cousin game of touch football, the point in the night when Aunt Nancy…

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