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When it comes to family I treat it more how Keith does then Chemda. Once I got to about 13 and started noticing more of what goes on around me instead of just playing with the other kids, I realised that the adults barely liked each other and once they had a few drinks would get very passive aggressive. They seemed to just hang out because of some misguided sense of "family" and on the drive home my parents would bitch about everyone else that was there. Even as a kid I could tell my uncle and aunt didn't really like us or care about us but we were good for keeping their kids occupied for a few hours. By the time I was 17 I'd stopped seeing anyone but my parents and sister because if we're not friends, what's the point? I tried to connect once again when I was 22 and it was exactly the same so that was it.
And I'm sorry Steampunk but "when I told her I was pagan she literary laughed out loud" and "everyone has an animal spirit which guides them, mine personally is a river otter" are the best laughs I've had this week.
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