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When siblings rebuild family identity after losing other family members

My sister and I are the only ones left in our family now and we're trying to figure out what traditions to keep, what stories to tell, how to be a family of two, but we remember everything differently and want different things from what remains. Every conversation about moving forward feels like we're fighting about the past.

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The last guardians of family memory discover they've inherited incompatible versions of what should be preserved and what should be released.

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