Back in the day (I've ALWAYS wanted to say that!!

) Christmas meant a looooooot more than it seems to now

I remember our holiday starting on Thanksgiving and lasting the whole month of December!!
I lived with Mama and Papa (who/whom?? had adopted me well before I can remember), my Mommy dearest, two of my six brothers, and my elder sister (Nikki wasn't even thought of yet

). Annnnywho, since Papa was the patriarch of our very LARGE family, we always had Thanksgiving Dinner at our house. And what a dinner it was...Surely there were a least 100 cousins, aunts, uncles, great this's and...
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