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Tell Michigan We Just Want to Talk

America's annual tradition of butchery

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D.J. Byrnes
Nov 26, 2021
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Thanksgiving isn't the holiday you think it is – The Maroon

Welcome to the most famous week on Ohio’s calendar. Don’t delude yourself into thinking I’m talking about Thanksgiving, when America celebrates a fictitious meal of historic camaraderie with the Natives right before we sold them blankets laced with small pox.

I speak of course of Michigan week. For all the shit I talk about Columbus, I am in the 1% of p…

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