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My family’s Norman Rockwell-ian tradition of Thanksgiving dinner was broken this year by circumstances beyond our control. Our usual clan of eight to 10 family members was reduced to the four of us, son Steve, daughter-in-law Kathy, grandson Sam, and myself.