text: who else is spending turkey day alone?   even though i am surrounded by my family and friends i feel all alone my mother died exactly four weeks ago today and i am having some difficultly getting in the holiday spirit it just isn't the same without her she was the center piece of our family i miss my mother she was so young only forty but only the good die young they say alone isn't necessarily bad is it there are like twenty people here and i wish they would all just go away