#QOTD 8 May 2025 - How close are you with your extended family?

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upper wave
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I don't know half their names

gritty parrot
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not that close but they’re cool when they’re around

steady sedge
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One of my cousins is literally in prison

gaunt stone
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See them occasionally but not nearly as much as I did when I was a kid

chilly wind
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My paternal side none entirely, bunch of uncles that passed, I'm sure they had kids but I have no idea who they could be or where they live

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Maternal side is a mixed bag. My more immediate cousins not that much bc my mom doesn't get along with her brother, my aunt's kids are much older than me.

drifting goblet
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Not really, i only know my family that lives around me

chilly wind
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I have one solid cousin that's distantly related (our grandparents were siblings somehow)

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Other than that yeah not much at all yk??

novel hollow
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Not too close I only met like 30% of my family just recently

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I didn't know I had 2 living great aunts until then

wet musk
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Not that close

stark viper
livid hedge
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I've been cut out of one half and the other half I haven't talked to in several years

harsh heath
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Basically another set of siblings with my cousins

chilly wind
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I have a queer cousin that probs has no idea our mom is 2 for 2 when it comes to gay kids

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But thinks she's the only gay cousin

limpid sigil
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We used to hang out with my parents' cousins and their kids when I was a kid but I haven't seen them in maybe a decade and a half at least
I only learned that my maternal grandparents have siblings like 5 years ago, but I don't know them

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If you're including aunts/uncles/cousins, then I know them and we used to meet up more for events when I was younger but now it's usually 4 or 5 times a year

trim lotus
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My what

limpid sigil
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"extended family" typically refers to your second cousins (parents' cousins or their kids), great aunts/uncles, etc

lapis dragon
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Not at all

slim raptor
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I'm not - I have an aunt I never see and everyone else has either not maintained contact or passed.

smoky surge
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I refuse to talk to most of them tbf

astral anchor
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yeah.... I barely know any of them. I see them all around christmas and it's the same song and dance every year:
"Hey!! wow... you've gotten so big!!!"
"haha, yep! If I had a nickel for every time I heard that, I'd be rich!"
"haha, well it's good to see you."

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and then i repeat that like 8 times a family gathering

clever widget
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Decently to very. I am trying to be closer to cousins and aunts and uncles after a few deaths in the family last year.