So Money episode 1130, Ask Farnush.

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Welcome to So Money.

Welcome to So Money, everybody.

I'm your host, Farnoosh Terabi. It's been a minute since we've caught up kind of in real time, right? I'm recording this pretty close to the Friday that you're hearing it and I don't think we have touched base about everyone's

Thanksgiving and how it went. For most of us it looked very different than Thanksgiving

normally looks like. Normally we travel to the West Coast with my kids to go to San Francisco and see my family, my parents,

my brother travels as well from the East Coast to the West Coast.

It's a whole thing.

It's like a week and change and we didn't do that this year. Instead we flew our parents in

at the very beginning of November when they came they quarantined for about five days,

and they took COVID tests, came back negative,

and then they moved in with us until Thanksgiving.

And they just left yesterday, back to California.

And we think that we may not see them for a very long time after now.

I mean, it's really, we're heading in for what they're saying is like

one of the most difficult times in our country's public health history.

These months are going to be really, really hard in many ways.

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