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You Have to Remember - by Chris La Tray

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Boozhoo, indinawemaaganidog! Aaniin! That is to say hello, all of my relatives! Welcome to another edition of An Irritable Métis. I am writing this morning on Thanksgiving Day in the U.S., where most of you are living. I hope you have good days planned since it is one of those rare holidays where almost everyone gets it off … and if you don’t, I’m sorry. My dad was a blue collar guy who spent 40+ years in the trenches of industry with a schedule dictated by grueling, rotating shift work. Many of our holiday plans orbited around when or if he would have to work or, depending on the shift,…

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