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In reply to the discussion: Weekend Economists Ring in the New! New Year 2015 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)41. Family dies--
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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