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Hello? Sandra.

Hi! We are working through this deal and I certainly do hope we make it.

Because we've never had 15 people for Thanksgiving dinner before. And we never

will again.

How's turkey number two?

Oh, great.

Then with our bird, that makes 24 pounds of turkey.

Your grandmother's making a mess of collard greens and ham hocks.

Yeah. Well, Martin and your grandfather are busy down in the basement.

Don't forget about us. Yes, a pie maker.

Oh, yes, and the girls are up to their ears until they can open their own pie

shop. Baby, I've got to get off the phone. This is war.

Bye.

How'd the shopping go, Cliff?

You sent me out Thanksgiving to get things from the store. Every store is

closed.

I drove 20 miles, finally found a place called the Lucky Stop Market.

They had a line of people longer than something to see Batman.

But, Cliff, you forgot the canned pumpkin for the pumpkin pie.

You never asked me to get canned pumpkin.

Honey, I did ask you for canned pumpkin. I told you to write it down. You said I

don't need a list. It's all up here.

Are you making sweet potato pie?

Yes. You got sweet potato pie. People don't know the difference between

pie and sweet potato pie.

You just put some whipped cream on the thing and tell them they got pumpkin

Come on, Dad. You can't have Thanksgiving without real pumpkin pie.

Heathcliff, you also forgot the nutmeg.

You got nutmeg here.

This is not fresh.

Now we're making traditional eggnog. And we need to grind it fresh from the

nutmeg. Honey, please, go get some nutmeg.

You're going to send me all the way back out there for a nut?

There are the other things that you forgot, honey.

You forgot the canned pumpkin, and I might add, you also forgot the dozen

that I need to make cornbread.

You want a dozen eggs, a can of pumpkin, and a nut.

Nutmeg.

me. You're just in time to help set the table.

Who made these?

This is Denise's idea. She thought it'd be cute if we had little place settings

this year, so I'm putting little name tags where everybody's sitting.

Mom, you put me at a table between Rudy and Olivia?

Well, I thought it'd be a good idea. I thought you could help serve the little

ones. Mom, you don't know what this means.

I'm at the children's table again.

Vanessa. Mom, all those Thanksgivings we had at Grandma and Grandpa's, I always

had to sit at the children's table.

And when I complained, you said, Vanessa, when you're an adult, you can

the adult.

Well, I'm 16 now. I'm an adult.

And now you stab me in the back.

Vanessa, that is not a children's table. How can you look me in the eye and say

that this is not a children's table? Mom, this is a car table.

I'm going to be surrounded by infants. You'll be over there talking about the

world and politics.

People know this.

Hello, everybody.

Here,

Mom, I've got the other turkey in the car.

Mom, do you need any help? No, I'm ready for Thanksgiving. I've got my 20 -pound

butterball right here.

That's his room.

What's in the casserole, Mr. Thibodeau? Old Jamaican favorite, curried goat.

Curried goat?

Which way?

Bank to the right. Thank you. Lester, I told you, we should have put that salad

in smaller bowls.

Yeah, but look at it. It's beautiful.

Well, how did you get that thing in the car?

We didn't. We strapped it to the roof.

Hello, Denise.

Olivia! Where am I? This way. This way, Elvin. Who's down there? Hey.

Where's this go? Here? Uh -huh. All the men are downstairs in the basement

getting their stuff ready, so you guys should go down there.

You see that, Dad? They put us in the basement again this year.

These women just don't trust us to cook.

Okay, get your pinches ready.

Pinches ready.

Okay, then pinch away.

Pinch. Pinch.

Pinch. Pinch. Keep pinching.

wood avenue okay it's like three and a half hour bye mommy's coming over yeah

all right i'm gonna put on my good dress okay oh yeah

what's she so excited about well let's guess who i just invited to dinner who

paula paula paula it's a friend of yours paula your ex -wife paula

you invited my ex -wife over for thanksgiving dinner

canceled because of the bad weather.

What? Come on, you guys get along.

Yeah, but I guess I never thought I'd be having Thanksgiving dinner with my wife

and my ex -wife.

I think it's great. I finally get to meet her.

Denise, did you ever stop to think that maybe I would be uncomfortable?

That maybe you would be uncomfortable?

That maybe everybody would be uncomfortable?

Honey, if anyone should be uncomfortable, it would be me.

And I'm fine.

Come on.

Okay. Okay.

Denise, you constantly amaze me.

What other woman would welcome with open arms her husband's former wife to a big

family occasion?

I think that maybe that is why I love you.

Oh,

in the kitchen, of all. Oh, Mom.

Olivia's mom was delayed at the airport, so I invited her over for dinner. Is

that okay?

You're comfortable with that?

Yeah.

from her to me now. He loves me.

I have nothing to be insecure about, besides if she makes a move on him,

dead woman.

dumb canned pumpkin, your stupid eggs, and your silly

nut.

Nutmeg, and thank you.

Could you take those wet things off before you catch a cold?

Here.

There are no eggs in here.

There's eggs in there. I put eggs in there. I bought eggs.

I don't care what that bag says. There's eggs in there.

The receipt says canned pumpkin, canned pumpkin, nutmeg. It says nothing about

eggs. You forgot the eggs again.

How am I supposed to make cornbread without eggs?

People don't need cornbread.

Let them eat soda crackers.

Hey, Cliffy.

Hey, Dad.

How you doing, fellas?

I hope you guys don't mind, but we won't be having cornbread today.

Why not? That's one of my favorites. Your homemade cornbread. Yeah, I mean,

be a happy man if all I got to eat on Thanksgiving was your cornbread.

Oh, hello, Cliff. I'm so glad you're here. By any chance of you going back to

the market, I forgot to put tomatoes in the salad.

You can't have a salad without tomatoes. That's like having no cornbread.

Well, all that's keeping us from having cornbread is a dozen eggs.

That's her. That's her.

You nervous? Just a little bit.

Hi. Oh, Kenny.

We thought it was somebody else.

Who?

Olivia's mom.

Your ex -wife?

That's right.

You're having her over here?

Yes, we thought it'd be a nice gesture to have her over for Thanksgiving

Big mistake.

Why?

You took her man. She might try to beat you up.

Kenny, I don't think that that's going to happen. I think that Paula and Denise

will get along fine.

Okay, but I'd never let my ex -wife back in the house.

My brother always said, when you leave a woman, don't look back.

Well, for you and your brother's information, I did not leave my ex

left me.

She left you?

Really? Whoa.

My brother never told me a woman could do that.

Listen, I got to check up on Olivia.

I'll be right back. Okay.

So, I guess your brother doesn't know everything about women.

That makes me wonder about something.

All the girls my brother said he broke up with, maybe they dumped him.

If you want Rudy, she's upstairs.

I guess it explains why my brother's always in his room, crying.

I heard the doorbell ring. Is Paula here?

No, no, that was Kenny.

Well, you call me when she comes, won't you? I mean, we'll all be in the kitchen

here working.

Well, what does she look like? I don't know. That was kidding.

I'm very curious to meet this woman. What kind of a person leaves a marriage

a beautiful little girl like Olivia?

It's a crazy world out there ever since Elvis and Priscilla split up. Things

haven't been the same.

You know, I... I think that as soon as Paula gets here, we should go out there

and greet her right away so that she doesn't think that we're avoiding her. I

don't know. If we're all going there at the same time, it may look as though

we're checking her out.

Dad, I totally agree with you. Let's just hang back.

Now, Martin will need plenty of time to adjust to Paula being here. I know I

would if my ex -wife showed up.

What do you mean, ex -wife?

I'm your only wife. Are you saying that someday you're going to have an ex

-wife? No, no, Martha, no. If I ever had an ex -wife, it would be another woman,

not you.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. That's her.

Okay.

Hello, Martin.

You must be Denise. Hi.

Nice to meet you. Hi, Paula.

This is Denise, my wife.

I just said this must be Denise.

Oh, well, she was right.

Listen, is it all right that I'm coming to this and meeting your family? Please,

of course. My family's delighted to have you here.

Great. Thanks.

You look good.

Thanks. You look good yourself.

Thanks. And Denise, baby, you look fantastic.

Okay, I'll be right here.

Daddy, you come upstairs and help me. Okay, Miss Bugaboo, we'll be right up.

-bye, sweetheart.

Okay, um, I gotta go upstairs, but that means that the two of you will be by

yourselves. Is that okay?

Oh, Martin, would you go?

Give us a chance to talk.

You're incredible.

Incredible.

Nice place.

I'm so glad Olivia's living in such a beautiful home. Thank you. Yeah, this is

the place where I grew up.

I've got to admit, though, that I am feeling a little uncomfortable being

I know. I can see that. Would you relax?

Okay. Just relax. You're going to have a good time. You'll fit right in.

Hi. I'm Claire. I'm Denise's mother. I'm Sandra,

Denise's older sister.

Alvin, Sandra's husband.

Francine, Alvin's mother.

Liz, the father of Alvin. Grandma Anna.

Her husband, Grandpa Russell on Cliff's side. Cliff is my husband, Denise's

father.

It's nice to meet you all. Nice to meet you, too.

Well, we've got to go back into the kitchen now. We've got a lot of work to

Bye.

What a nice family.

They don't usually travel in packs like that. They're usually roaming around

separately. Well, my family's like that, too.

So, I've thought a lot about you.

And me, you.

Curious what Martin told you about me. So that you were bright and that you

a good student.

And that you seemed happy at the beginning of your marriage. And then one

you announced this wasn't for you and you left.

Let me explain to you what happened.

I've spent most of my life looking over my shoulder.

And I've always tried to do what everyone wanted me to do. Like school.

Now, I wanted to major in sociology, but my parents said, what are you going to

do with a sociology degree?

So then I majored in accounting.

And in my senior year, my parents say to me, when are you going to get married?

So I meet a graduate of the Naval Academy who they loved.

And so we got married.

Then they say, when are you going to have a baby?

Well, then I put everything on hold and I had Olivia.

Then it all started to close in on me. I couldn't breathe.

I had to get out.

So as painful as it was and as hurtful as it was, Martin understood and he let

me go.

And of course I felt guilty leaving Olivia and leaving Martin and even

disappointing my parents. But it's what I had to do.

So I've been seeing a psychiatrist and she's been helping me get everything

together, right?

And I've even gone back to... school i'm majoring in sociology and i'm just

grateful that i can see oblivia and that she's got someone like you raising her

you're wonderful and i can see why she likes you so much

thank you so what you did thanks for sharing that with me

So darling, you know, you're not only beautiful, but you're extremely

Wow, Lydian, I didn't even help you one bit. This is a masterpiece.

You staying for dinner?

Well, I was invited.

I'm not going back out yet.

Hey, the weather out there is unbelievable.

They canceled our flight. Yeah, we can't go on a skiing trip until tomorrow.

I'm just glad I have a friend like Phil. Otherwise, I'd have no place to go

today. Dad, Howard and Jenny's parents went out of town, so I invited them over

here for Thanksgiving dinner.

Is that okay?

back out there.

See if they score.

No game.

Lester, turn it off.

Oh, come on. Sorry, I gotta do it. I live with her.

Sandra, dinner!

Cliff, you can come down, too.

Dad's not here, Mom.

But you told me that he came in and spilled eggs on the floor.

You went back to the store.

Theo, you didn't tell me you went back to the store. I thought you'd figure it

out by now.

Oh.

Are you ready to eat? No, we have to wait for Dr. Huxley.

Juby has to wait. I'm hungry.

Kelly, what are you doing here?

Rudy invited me. Well, didn't you have Thanksgiving dinner at your house?

Yes, but I have a lot to be thankful for.

Can I stay?

I guess so. Have a seat over there, and let's get this food back into the

kitchen before it gets cold.

How did you get cornbread without eggs?

Well, honey, I borrowed the eggs from next door.

Heavenly Father, you've got that

right.

Heavenly Father, thank you for gathering all of us here to celebrate the many

blessings you've given us.

And we want to thank you for the new additions to our family who are with us

today.

Olivia, Martin, and Paula.

And dear Lord, while we partake of this wonderful meal which has been so

lovingly prepared for us, let us remember those in this world who do not

place to sleep, nor enough food to eat, and those of us who have been out in the

rain all day.

And we ask in your name that you continue to bless us with the good

allow us to gather again next year.

Amen.

Amen.

Honey,

could you put those wet things out on the stove, please?

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