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Hi and Happy Thanksgiving! Thanks for
inviting us into your home and letting

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us tell you a little bit about what we
think about when we think about

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Thanksgiving. To me, Thanksgiving is all
about family. I grew up in a family with

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five kids and as a first generation
American I guess my parents had to learn

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pretty quick how to put on a great
Thanksgiving feast. I have a lot of fond

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memories of growing up and eating with
all my siblings and having a great time.

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As I got older and lived in various
places, Thanksgiving turned into an even

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broader extended family. I have adopted
families all over the country, so I'll be

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thinking this year about everyone down
on the ground celebrating together.

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Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday, personally. I love it because

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it's all about the togetherness but not
necessarily the commercialism and in

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recent years I've also come to learn to
love "friendsgiving" and that's a little

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bit like what we're having on board here, friendsgiving, although you could say

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we're family, too. There are six of us living up here on the International Space Station

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and three of us are American and while
this is a uniquely American holiday, this

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particular date, we're gonna be sharing
it with our international friends

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on board. If you can't have it with your
own family you might as well have it

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with your crewmates who are like family
on board the International Space Station.

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When we think of Thanksgiving we think
of friends, family and food and so we've

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talked a lot about our friends and
family but we're also going to be

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enjoying a lot of really great food
on board the International Space Station:

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Vegetables, of course, green beans and
potatoes. And, of course, smoked turkey in

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a pouch. I want to know who's gonna carve the turkey once it comes out of that

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pouch. Sweet potatoes were always a huge hit in
my house. And this one will require

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reconstituting or I'll add a little bit
of water and it'll become delicious

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macaroni and cheese. Cornbread dressing! This will be great, Maybe stuff it inside

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the turkeys just to make it like a real
stuffing. We get to the best part: dessert.

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The one that most resembles what we
think of as a traditional Thanksgiving

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dessert is this crane apple dessert. We
were also coming up with some ideas of

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how we might create our own pumpkin pie
maybe with a little bit of cookies

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stuffed in the pouch of candied yams. And
one of my personal favorites that we

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have definitely, we don't have on a
regular basis up here in there on the

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International Space Station but sent for
special occasions is, of course, jellied

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cranberry sauce in a can. Of course, it's
got to stay in the shape of the can