My grandparents met when they were teenagers and married each other in their 20’s. They both broke off from their nuclear families to construct a family of procreation in which they had six children, the sixth being my mother. By watching the two of them interact, I’m able to see the love they share. My grandfather still offers his help to my grandmother when helping her stand up and gently kisses her on the hand. The way they raised my mother and her siblings in celebrating Thanksgiving as a family has carried on in to the way we celebrate it now.

Kenneth J. Guest, Essentials of Cultural Anthropology (New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016), Page 255.