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Since freshman year, I have been a competitive cheerleader and that means that my family and I do a lot of traveling. Every year, my mom, stepdad, and father come with me to the competitions.

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Up until I was 12, Family Camp at Lutherlyn was over the week of 4th of July and once we quit attending Family Camp, we still went up to Pittsburgh during the summer

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Also known as pirogis is also a Poland recipe my grandmother upholds

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Also, my dad told me that it was tradition for him and his siblings to eat sauerkraut and cabanossi on New Years for good luck.

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-My grandmother makes Gołąbki which is better known as stuffed cabbage

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-I was born and raised in Myrtle Beach
-My mother was born in Sumter
-My dad was born in Pittsburgh
-My mother's parents were born in the north, but my grandfather carries strong Italian genes
-My Dad's mother is Polish and his father is German hence Rahner

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If you did not know, people in Pittsburgh's don’t talk the same way people in Myrtle Beach do. For instance, anytime we are in Pittsburgh at dinner time, my family asks, “would you like a pop to drink?” My sister and I will always laugh and then they will mock us and ask if we want a so-DUH. My cousins also pick on my sister a lot because she says “y’all” a lot and with very much a southern twang. Whereas they says “yinz”

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My mother also makes homemade mac-n-cheese .

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One holiday food tradition is that my sister and my grandfather make deviled eggs together whether it is Easter, Thanksgiving, or Christmas

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--My mother grew up Catholic and my dad grew up Lutheran and up until I was 12 I attended an annual Lutheran Summer camp named Lutherlyn. My dad had been attending Lutherlyn since he was 5 months old and he attended up until he was 44. We quit attending the camp due to accusations regarding cheating.

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On Christmas morning, my sister and I open all the presents from my mom and then around 1 o’clock my grandparents come and we all open more presents. It isn’t until 5 or 6 that evening that my sister and I go to our dads and celebrate Christmas with him.

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On Christmas Eve, my sister and I wear our dresses and attended the Christmas service at Beach Church with our dad. After that, my dad drops us off at my Great Uncle George’s house. There, my mom, grandparents, aunt and uncle, and other family eat dinner and open presents. After, my sister and I go back to mom’s and open one present.

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Christmas in Myrtle beach is the holiday that sees the most traditions. In December, my grandmother takes me and my sister out for Christmas dresses because my grandma makes us take Christmas pictures every year.

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--My Myrtle Beach family also upholds annual Thanksgiving and Christmas traditions. On Thanksgiving, my grandparents hold Thanksgiving at their house because every year grandpa says “Thanksgiving is MY holiday”, and this is because he loves to cook and he is really good at it.

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Euchre is a family tradition that is played at every family gathering. My dad taught me and I taught a lot of my friends how to play.

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--My sister and I always visit the Half Price Book Store in Robinson Township. At this bookstore, you can buy 4-6 books for $20 or under. The reason my sister and I uphold this tradition is because we love reading and also because my grandmother’s house doesn’t have wifi and my sister and I always seem to use all of our data on the 10 hour car ride up.

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--During a Pittsburgh Christmas, all of the Rahner family gathers in my grandparent’s three story home that was built half a century ago. We all sit in the living room or formal dining room indulging my grandmother’s famous holiday meals.

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--On Black Friday, my cousins and I always visit the Pittsburgh mall in hopes of finding a deal we cannot resist

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---Every year we have a “Pittsburgh Thanksgiving”, it always hosts a lot of people. During this Thanksgiving, it is not limited to just the Rahner family. On this holiday, roughly 30 people come and go and gather together giving thanks over warm food. Our northern Thanksgiving is always held at the Green Tree Fire Station outside of Pittsburgh. I don’t know how this venue was chose so many years ago, all I know is that my Uncle Kary knows basically everyone in Green Tree.

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--My family traditions vary with each coming holiday. The year determines how and who the holiday is celebrated with. For example, this year, 2016, I will go to Pittsburgh to visit my dad's family for Thanksgiving, but next year, we will go to Pittsburgh for Christmas.