My parents died young... mother when I was 4; father when I was 29. I'm reasonably close to my younger brother, but not really close. My older brother has some serious social issues... he skipped a couple of grades in school and ended up in with a bad crowd... drugs, alcohol, etc. He dropped out of university with a 4.3 CGPA and refused to speak to my father for several years. It was only when he was dying that my brother "came back into the fold". We're still not close, but we do keep in touch.
The rest of my family just isn't close. My wife has a cousin whose family is almost as dysfunctional as mine. We love to get together and trade stories about whose family is weirder. So far, I think he's winning, but it's close :P
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