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Article: Over laughter, food, and music, strangers became friends; As a student visiting from India, my first Thanksgiving was perhaps closest in spirit to the original significance of the holiday.(THE HOME FORUM)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 23, 2005
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Byline: Niranjana Iyer
When I first arrived in America from India as a university student, Thanksgiving was merely a date marked in red on my calendar that promised a welcome respite from classes.
When friends invited me to visit for the long weekend, I declined, planning to use the break to finish a long-overdue paper instead.
On Wednesday evening though, I realized I had blundered. The campus was a lonely ghost town. Here I was in a dark library 7,000 miles from home, while everyone else was with family. As I packed up my books and headed toward my dorm, the icy wind cut through the winter coat I had purchased in my hometown of Madras, where ...