My family is not what you would call close, but we’re not enemies either. we just all kind of do our own thing. Telephone and email are our best used forms of communication much to my mother’s disgust who is terribly upset over her great-granddaughter (my niece)’s handwriting which is evidently atrocious.

I remember being very protective of my brother who had Down’s Syndrome. He’s been gone a good many years now, but his memory lives on in my heart.

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Human relationship is one of the most complicated things in this World and yet one of the simplest. From your writings, I feel your love for your sisters, especially your middle sister. I felt your longing to be back together with them like in the old days too. There is a quotation that goes something like this, “As we grow older, we’ll find the only things we regret are the things we didn’t do.”

How true isn’t it? Maybe it is time to mend those relationships?

“Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.” – Leo Buscaglia

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I’m sorry the relationships with your family aren’t what you wish they were, but I’m glad you have your Bill. I know you really appreciate him. I am really blessed to have a very close knit family. Sometimes we drive each other crazy, but we always seem to be able to put things aside and get along. I know I am very lucky! I hope you and Bill have a really great Thanksgiving.

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Family is definitely the most important thing around! It is definitely what I am most thankful for this year and am so glad that we have a close family. I’d like our family to get even closer though, especially since my husband and I are trying to have a baby now.

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Our family is not close either but I wish we were. I enjoy getting together now and then but we don’t do it very often. Gerard’s side used to more and I enjoyed it, but now that their kids are teens and they don’t have the “family birthday parties” anymore, we seldom see them. It’s too bad.

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I hope you do too! Happy Thanksgiving! Dropping by here via EC drop- come say hello sometimes

It truly saddens me that families often find it difficult to simply communicate. This life of ours is so short, but most of it is lost on jealousy, disagreements and misunderstandings.

I wish you the best and may the emptiness in your heart continue to be filled with love and peace.

I was really touched by this post. I dont have any extended family–except my grown children and thankfully we are all close–if not by miles at least by love and keeping in touch. My own mother alienated herself from her parents families and so when I grew up and started a family of my own, we were already estranged. My mom did a lot of damage to our family (mostly to me)–including the relationship I had with my brother–that can never be healed. Now no one in the wolrd wants to bother with her, and I am the only one left to care for her now that she is ill. I spend a lot of time agonizing over what could have been and what actually is. I have a lot of resentment. In conclusion I’d just like to say I think there is something seriously and fundamentally wrong with folks who can cut family out of there lives. And what’s worse, it’s easily passed onto the next generation if someone isnt wise enough to stop it. I wish you had a closer family. I know how painful it is.

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