SUBJECT: Thanksgiving, gratitude, thankfulness

CHARACTERS: Mother, Shaundra, her teenage daughter,

James, Shaundra''s boyfriend 

PROPS: Card table and chairs they can sit in, Stack of

Thanksgiving lists 

SETTING: Kitchen table 

Shaundra: "Hey, Mom.  What are you doing?" 

Mother: "Oh, hey, guys.  I was going through our

insurance papers and came across  all our old Thanksgiving lists.  Talk about

some good memories!" 

Shaundra: "Neat!  Let me see some." 

James: "What are they?" 

Shaundra: "Every year since we could write, Mom''s

been making lists each Thanksgiving of the things we''re all thankful

for." 

James: "What do you keep them for?" 

Mother: "To remind me what that year was like for

our family. And for blackmail.  Shaundra, do you remember what you  wrote the

year you were six?" 

Shaundra: "O…