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When adult siblings clash over family celebrations

My adult siblings and I are planning our parents' 50th anniversary celebration and we all have different ideas about what would honor them best, but really we're arguing about our different relationships with them and different family roles we've always played. Everyone wants to be the one who knows them best.

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Family events can become arenas where old dynamics and competing loves play out in present tense.

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