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As much as I love my family and we get along, I wouldn't have chosen any of them for friends, well, maybe my dad, but just maybe. I like my two sisters and my brother, but we have very little in common-all 4 of us are so completely different from each other, we don't even look related, let alone act the same.
A cousin is getting married in two months. She has invited everyone in our family. Her parents, my mom's brother and his wife, have never met my kids (who are 13), have spoken ill of me and one of my sisters, at least, and have snubbed every milestone of my parents, including their 50th anniversary party. I am not going to this wedding, which pissed off a sister of mine. Why would I spend money on dressy clothes for two of us, a shower gift and a wedding gift and then use up an evening to go to a wedding of someone's whom I last saw about 16 years ago?
I don't like my mom's siblings, I have no use for any of them and I would only go to their funerals out of respect for my mom. My favorite relative, my dad's brother, died in 1980; only he and his cousin, whom I also love a great deal, remain from that family.
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