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Thanksgiving is my favorite American holiday. Let me count some of the ways I love Thanksgiving:
Because it isn’t very commercialized.
Because it doesn’t leave out the lovelorn and the lonely.
Because it has an intrinsic honesty: It’s about being grateful.
Because it’s about as much extended family as most of us can take: just one day of them.
Because there aren’t a lot of old movies — aired on other holidays — that get taken out of the movie mausoleum every year, like “Nightmare on Elm Street,” “Miracle on 34th Street” or that one about snow, “Holiday Inn,” and “The Ten Commandments.”