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Thanksgiving returns this week. That means the Schmidt Bed and Breakfast and a Whole Lot More will be back in job.
Twenty family members will dive into the turkey dinner Thursday at the Fargo home of Jim and Naemi Schmidt. Many of them will have arrived the night-time before, and they all will stay until Saturday.
That means lots of food, plus lots of sleeping space; there will be bodies, big and flat, all over the place.
And the Schmidts love it all: the food, the fun and, yes, the fingerprints.
It’s a family tradition.
Food and more food
The tradition works this way: One year Jim and Naemi have the Thanksgiving gathering, with the family spending Christmas at their respective homes. The next year they reverse it, with the Schmidts hosting a Christmas congress and the family spending Thanksgiving at their homes. But every July Fourth, the family gathers at a cabin on Little Detroit Lake in Minnesota.
Now, though, it’s Thanksgiving period at the home of Jim, a retired account manager for Consolidated Freightways, and Naemi, a retired receptionist for Fargo Cass Notorious Health.








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