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Demeter

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41. Family dies--
Thu Jan 1, 2015, 11:36 AM
Jan 2015

which is what has happened to mine. My parents stuck to family, because there was a lot of it, and they were essentially isolates, and by lack of opportunity, so were we kids.

Now we are reduced to 2 siblings, 4 descendants, distant cousins....I am trying to build community in the condos, but it's like pulling teeth. paranoia has replaced community. A nation of strangers, unsettled, unattached. No gift of sociability.

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