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Happy Thanksgiving!

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When I need a recipe from the USA, I trust Martha! It's my favorite holiday: Thanksgiving. It's not about some national history for me. It is about thankfulness and family. I love my family and I live thousands of miles away from them. I am immensely thankful for my personal heritage - for my parents and grandparents and all my aunts and uncles. I am thankful for growing up in a place that allowed me to be myself. I am thankful for growing up knowing that "Jesus loves me" and "I'm something special" and even a little of "I can do anything you can do better!" America is like that... we grow up believing in positivity and possibility and individual potential. We grow up learning that God helped us get here... we didn't do everything right... we can still move ahead. We have another chance to make things better. We have a responsibility to make change happen. In today's world, many people think that how I grew up in a small Indi