Hey, Hey Waffle gang. I do hope you're well. My name is Mark and today we're checking out some more Reddit stories.

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Let's crack on with today's first story, which comes from Stolen Turkey 2022 from the true off my chest subreddit

that says yes stole our thanksgiving turkey a multi-year story i'm confused and frustrated and

neat event we hosted thanksgiving this year and I, and our two kids.

Husband's siblings and nieces and nephews and most importantly, husband's gravely ill mother.

We're all at peace that this Thanksgiving and Christmas will probably be our last holidays

together.

It's been emotional and exhausting, but we really wanted to make a memorable day that would

make everyone happy.

Our daughter Mary is visiting from college, and one day before she flew in, she says,

her boyfriend, Chris, is actually flying to our city to visit friends over the break.

Mary asked if he could come over for Thanksgiving.

We've never met Chris before, to be honest we're not wild about

him. As soon as Mary started dating him, we started seeing some worrying changes in her.

Our son, who's just a couple of years older, confided in us that Mary is getting into the

party scene, largely because of Chris. We've tried gently bringing up our concerns with Mary,

but she shuts us down and has started to pull away from us. So because we didn't want to alienate

her, we said Chris could visit, but they'd need to stay in separate rooms. She said that won't matter

because he's booked a hotel room and she'd be staying there with him the whole weekend. Ah, okay. Cut to Thanksgiving and Mary and Chris arrive. He's not the greatest.

He makes a couple of rude and snide remarks throughout the visit and hits the alcohol way

harder than is appropriate. My family was in a very earnest mood, if that makes sense, sense lots of emotion and he was just dismissive and

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