“Al I’m sorry I yelled at you.  You were trying to take care of me and you didn’t deserve it.  I just hate that you are missing out on something you love because of me.  You have already given up so much recently because of me.  I won’t let you give up today too.”

“You’re wrong.”  Dana gave Alice a confused look.  “Yes I love Thanksgiving.  It’s the one holiday each year I know I don’t have to worry about Lenore making a surprise appearance and I get to spend the entire day with my family.  I am thankful to have all of you in my life and each year I get to look around the dinner table and tell everyone that.  But most of all I am always thankful to have you in my life and thankful that I get to spend the day with you.  Do you remember a few years ago when I mentioned canceling Thanksgiving Dinner?”  Dana nodded her head.  “It was because you thought you were going to have to do a promotional event and would be out of town on Thanksgiving.  Yes Thanksgiving dinner with the group is a tradition that I look forward to every year.  It’s also a tradition we started.  The first Thanksgiving after you came out to your parents you didn’t feel comfortable going home and Lenore was who only know, so we planned on having Thanksgiving together.  Shane didn’t have plans so she spent the day with us and the three of us agreed to make it a tradition each year since.  The next year is when everyone else joined us.  So yeah, I would love to go have dinner at The Planet with everyone, but it just wouldn’t be Thanksgiving dinner without you.  We agreed the first year to spend Thanksgiving dinner together every year and this year is no different.  The only way I would be giving up anything today is if I went to The Planet for dinner without you.  I promised to spend Thanksgiving with you and that is exactly what I am going to do.  So we can fight about it or we can move this party into the living room, eat dinner, and watch the Parade that I recorded for you.”