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Muppet Started conversation Nov 24, 2002
My great aunt died the week before last and on Friday I went to her funeral. It wasn't that I missed her or was grieving for her - I hadn't seen her in years and we didn't keep in touch. She was invited to my wedding in May but didn't come (along with a significant proportion of my much younger relatives).
I went because my dad was upset and I wanted to be with him. And he was pleased to see me, so that was good.
What wasn't good is that there is a major rift down the middle of my dad's family. Acutally it's pretty much the girls v the boys for some reason - my aunts are on one side and my dad and my uncle on the other. There's too much history involved to figure it all out, but it was a miracle that there wasn't a bun fight at the wake. The bitching started later and will no doubt get worse when they have to sort out the will.
Why do families do this? If they don't like each other, why not stay away? Is is so hard to be civil for an entire day? I don't like most of them very much myself (we have nothing in common expect the chromosomes) but it doesn't get to me to the point where I'm always bad-mouthing them.
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