Family gatherings used to be the glue that kept people together, no matter how brief or vague the encounter.
Take traditional year-end festivities for example. We might find ourselves meeting individuals whom we know little of other than their sequence of birth: “This is your great-grandmother’s sixth daughter’s second son’s daughter. I’m sure you remember her from that party six months ago.”
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