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10/21/12

A Family Dinner

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A Family Dinner
Essay by Rkrosebud, University, Bachelor 's, October 2004 www.writework.com/essay /f amily -dinner 1/7

10/21/12

A Family Dinner

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0Like 0Tweet The first thing that comes to mind when thinking of a family dinner is unity as family members gather together to share a meal and their day 's events. In the spacious kitchen, while Mom prepares dinner, she listens to her children chatting and laughing as they do their homework at the large mahogany table by the picture window that faces the bucolic back yard. They wait anxiously for their father to return home from work so they can eat their mother 's savory dinner. This reminds Mom of herself as a blooming child sitting at the kitchen table smelling all her mother 's delectable food and anxiously waiting her father 's arrival while chatting and laughing with her siblings. The kitchen has the essence of a gourmet restaurant at the height of the dinner hour. Aromas are sprinkling the air and tickling the noses of everyone it touches. It brings a sense of warmth and safety that envelops each child as if it


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