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Thanksgiving Should Not Start At 4:30 AM

July 3, 2017 by Tom Rankin Leave a Comment

Thanksgiving Should Not Start At 4:30 AM

Elisabeth and I give thanks for many things in our lives: Wallace, Spam, and Netflix being a very short list of items for which we are thankful. Thanksgiving Day is the day we adopted Wallace and brought him home from Russia. We, however, were not so thankful when Wallace woke up at 4:30 AM on […]

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