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Realistic Cold-Weather Clothing Options for Tweens
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Your Amazon Order of Reusable Metal Straws Is Currently on Its Way Via the Most Ecologically Devastating Route You Could Imagine
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Items Your Local HomeGoods Insists You Need This Holiday
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The First Black Friday,
by William BradfordShoes of sturdy leather were to be had for the low, low sum of a single raccoon’s pelt, and milking cow discounts did flood with joye anyone able to parse the true meaning of “half-off.”
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November 22, 2023Post-Dinner Interview with a Twelve-Year-Old Who Sat at the Grown-Ups’ Table for the First Time on Thanksgiving
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November 14, 2023In the Office Auto-Reply Emails for a Hybrid Work Schedule
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November 17, 2023Quiz: Are You the Worst Person at Thanksgiving?
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November 13, 2023Twelve Things Your College Freshman Son Will Never Say During His Weekly Call Home
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September 2, 2021Oh My Fucking God, Get the Fucking Vaccine Already, You Fucking Fucks
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November 21, 2023Thanksgiving Is Always Ruined by That One Uncle Obsessed with Steely Dan
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November 28, 2023Norse Mythology for Bostonians: An Excerpt from Rowdy Geirsson’s The Impudent Edda
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November 23, 2023A Letter from McSweeney’s Executive Director
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November 17, 2023Interviews with People Who Have Interesting or Unusual Jobs: Spencer Cammarano, Guinness World Records Adjudicator
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November 16, 2023Reviews of New Food: Walmart’s Great Value Original Fruit Smiles
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November 15, 2023Short Conversations with Poets: Alice Oswald
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November 10, 2023Best Joke Ever: The Funniest Superhero Movie and My Ragnarok Year
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November 8, 2023Short Conversations with Poets: Safiya Sinclair
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