For those of us who celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday today, I would like to offer the expression my grandfather would say to the table at large right after the blessing was finished: "Root hog or die!"

“Now may this little Book a blessing be
To those that love this little Book, and me:
And may its Buyer have no cause to say,
His money is but lost, or thrown away.”

― John Bunyan, Christiana's Journey Or The Pilgrim's Progress, The Second Part

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This week’s prompt is given to us by a random word generator: lip