One of my favorite assignments as a reporter used to be writing a Thanksgiving story to run on the front page of the biggest newspaper of the year.

There have been years when it seemed trivial to write such a story in light of all that had gone on. After 9/11, for example. Or in the aftermath of the economic crash of 2008.

But I don’t recall a year like this, when it seems like one calamity after another has affected so many areas of our daily lives.

On a personal level, my dad died in February. It was only a few weeks later that the word “coronavirus” came into our vocabulary, and it soon consumed our

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