Is There Anything Stranger than Going Home for the Holidays? — Stranger Thanksgiving

November 17, 2016

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Going home for the holidays is like going to the Upside Down, back in time to when the world still felt strange and new. Welcome to Stranger Thanksgiving, inspired by Netflix’s hit Stranger Things and the Thanksgivings of our childhoods.

My mother, a hard-working mom of three, believes in one thing over all else: family. She always expected her kids to show up at the dinner table; to her, every Sunday was an occasion to get together around a meal.

But holidays were The Real Deal, especially Thanksgiving, a single-day holiday that she somehow made last all week. We’d prep pies and desserts, brine the turkey, and clean the house from top to bottom.

On Thanksgiving morning, we’d gather around the kitchen TV to watch the Macy’s Day Parade while we got cooking. By two o’clock, the house would be filled food and sweater-wearing friends and family.

To me, it was a perfect holiday, full of fun and comfort and safety; the kind of feeling that only warm, familiar food cooked by someone you love can give you. And it was never more perfect than on November 25, 1999, the day I have framed in my mind as the holiday to compare all other holidays to.

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