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[quote=Anonymous]I don’t know the actual origin of the word Friendsgiving, but for me, it was a Thanksgiving meal that we did with people who had no family and were not traveling home for Thanksgiving in college.

Since some of us were traveling home for Thanksgiving, we didn’t do it on Thanksgiving day, but it gave those people the opportunity to feel like they had a Thanksgiving.

In my 20s, we did it with a few people that weren’t welcome home for Thanksgiving even though they had a home to go to because they were LGBT or they had another type of falling out.
Of course they were welcome to come to our families Thanksgiving, but many didn’t want to.  It was also a time for a bunch of us to get together who felt like family, but weren’t family by blood to provide love and support because we knew for those that were going home for Thanksgiving that weren’t feeling welcome because perhaps they were gay or another type of falling out or they were too poor to travel or  they worked on Thanksgiving they knew that they had a loving and supporting family.

Why not just call it a dinner party? Cause it was Thanksgiving food with friends.[/quote]

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