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Show 116 Grandpa Funster's last holidays." So Thanksgiving Day we all got up and watched parades in the morning and saw Santa Claus in New York and Santa Claus in Philadelphia and Santa Claus in Detroit while Jon listened to Bush on the phone or took walks between Neda's bed and the TV because Helen was cooking in the kitchen and preparing the holy room table for dinner. £kax Andrew took notes and Joseph watched the parades attentively with his blind eye and Neda read, but x Red liked parades especially the giant balloons of Popeye and Mickey Mouse and Bullwinkle, so everybody watched parades except Helen who we all thought was lucky enough to have to cook though Helen herself said she preferred to watch parades. Everytime Santa Claus came on at the end of the parade Red pointed and said, "There's Santee Claus, look, there's Santee Claus," and laughed like hell, sticking his fingers in everybody's ribs. Neda told him to go to hell, so he tickled her more. Red sure did like Santee Claus. After the parades Red and Jon went to get Bush who sat in the living room v/hen she got there and watched the Lions play the Packers while Jon walked back and forth and Red, who Bush made go into the kitchen to help Helen, kept running back into the room everytime he heard cheering to see what the play was or see the replay of the touchdown. Then Texas played Texas A&M, but we didn't get to see the end of it because dinner was ready, besides Texas always smashed the shit out of Texas A&M anyway, it was ridiculous to even play the x game. Bush and Jon sat at one head of the holy room table, right under The Infant, and Red and Helen sat at the other with Helen's chair closest to the kitchen. Neda wanted to stay in bed but Red carried her in and sat her down on my side. Joseph and Andrew sat on the other side. The heads of the table were a bit crowded but politically correct. Red carved the turkey. Helen xxxxx passed the food. Bush dished out portions for Jon who had grown suddenly ill and didn't want to eat. He kept whispering to Bush and peering at Red and though Red was determined as hell to have a good time he wasn't having a good time, partly because when Red got determined to enjoy himself he didn't have a prayer and partly because even understanding Jon was nuts didn't make up for Jon's antipathy for Red right in Red's own home on Thanksgiving after all Red had done for |