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We asked for your Thanksgiving commute sob stories, and boy did you deliver. If we could, we'd give a bag of beauty products to every person who commented on our Facebook wall, but since we only have one, we're handing it to the reader who might have to bring her brother home from the mental hospital on a ferry. Nothing beats that, not even the person who wrote, "I have to drive across town...in Los Angeles." [Previously; Facebook]
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