"Some of you won't stay home. But please don't forget where you came from. I never did."

from Indianapolis

Kurt

"...But the point always was that we were all equals at the table. For a brief moment, we were on family sharing gratitude, heartache, joy, and most of all, delicious food."

Bruce

from Westfield

"During Thanksgiving and Christmas, my mother would make dinner and preparations for way more people than our family had, because we just never knew who might show up, from where they came, or what they had been through..."