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		<title>Poet Nikky Finney&#8217;s Awesome Thank You Speech</title>
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<p>Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and as many of us take off to spend time with family and close friends readying our waistlines for turkey, macaroni &#38; cheese, lasagna, greens, candied yams, pumpkin pie and an assortment of other goodies, I find the time we spend being grateful, a fleeting, yet still very essential part of this holiday. So I urge you to take a minute, actually ten, to please watch Nikky Finney’s acceptance speech that she  <a href="http://thehotness.com/2011/11/23/poet-nikky-finneys-awesome-thank-you-speech/" class="read_more">Read more...</a></p>]]></description>
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