Family of Friends

We come together as a family; my friends and me.
Each bringing what we said we would.
Two or three bringing extra things that are duplicates.
Six people, and we have three pumpkin pies.
Hilarious! We laugh about it.

Everyone talks at once, telling the same stories.
We pause at the same times, ask the same questions.
Laugh with appreciation, pretending we have never heard them.
We are friends, who have formed a family.
For our families are young, doing young people things.

We are older, and have more in common because of it.
We talk about the original Saturday Night Live shows.
We start 1950 commercials and finish them for each other.
“Plop plop fizz fizz……………………………….oh what a relief it is!”
“See the USA in a ……………………………………Chevrolet!”

We have made Thanksgiving into a family event.
Our family, the family of friends.

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Date: 11/28/2021 8:00:00 AM
This could have been my friends and I. It is great fun being with them because we have so much in common. I am sire our young families are happy too, not worrying if we are bored or "OK". I really enjoyed this poem..
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/28/2021 6:59:00 PM
Thank you Virginia. Happy Holidays to you!
Date: 11/27/2021 8:48:00 PM
I love this! Sounds like a lot of fun! “Two wild and crazy guys”
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/28/2021 6:59:00 PM
More than two when you figure it all out.
Date: 11/27/2021 7:39:00 PM
I think that's the very best kind of family one can have...the family YOU choose! None of my real family even wished me Happy Thanksgiving. I had thanksgiving dinner with dear friends...have had for the past four or five years.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/28/2021 7:07:00 PM
Happy Thanksgiving Hank!
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 11/27/2021 8:48:00 PM
Happy Thanksgiving!
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