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A Kardashian Thanksgiving Mystery Has Been Solved

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Presumably your Thanksgiving-weekend festivities were briefly suspended this weekend when Kylie Jenner posted a shot on her Instagram account from the Kardashian Thanksgiving celebration. The snap featured the entire Kardashian-Jenner brood, including significant others Corey Gamble (boyfriend to Kris), Kanye West (husband to Kim), Tyga (boyfriend . . . or something, to Kylie), and Scott Disick (ex-boyfriend to Kourtney, though who can ever be totally sure with those two). Caitlyn Jenner, as well as Kim and Kourtney’s children, were all on hand—though Rob Kardashian, as ever, was absent.

Presumably—after you had charted out all of the various dynamics here between shouting matches about Donald Trump and exclamations from aunts about how they just can’t get enough of that Adele—you used turkey bones, stuffing, and cranberry sauce to re-create the picture on your own kitchen table. There was one impediment to completing such a task, however: one individual, unknown to the masses, standing to the right of Scott and Mason—almost appearing, due to the way he was standing and the distance from the group, as if he was Photoshopped onto the picture. Who was this mystery man?! Was he a friend from Kris’s Pilates class? Scott’s high-school friend? Khloé’s acupuncturist?

No, no, TMZ (of course) has solved the mystery. The outlet reports that he is a longtime friend of Kanye’s, named Sakiya Sandifer. He and Kanye reportedly grew up together in Chicago, and they wrote a “book of sayings” together in 2009, Thank You and You’re Welcome. Sandifer “happened to be in L.A.” on a business trip, and Kanye invited him over to the Thanksgiving dinner. (Sandifer also was part of the Kimye wedding party, walking Kylie down the aisle.) So you may now update your stuffing-and-turkey-bones rendering accordingly.