If you’re reading this in the Sunday paper, you realize we’ve all managed somehow to make it through Thanksgiving dinner. With our relatives.

Now, I realize that some of you lucky readers have family members you actually look forward to seeing.

“Gee, I can’t wait for Aunt Susan to get here with little Angela, so we can catch up on all the gossip and play board games all night long,” some of you were saying to yourselves last week. “They are so much fun.”

But if you’re in the other camp, i.e. the always-shut-out camp, you might be thinking, “Oh, great. Aunt Susan. She’ll ask me if I’m married yet, if I’m dating anyone, then she’ll survey me with pity and tell me, ‘That’s OK. Someone will come along.’ While her eyes are actually saying, ‘When pigs fly.’

“Then she’ll look me up and down a

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