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How families navigate changing traditions across distance

My family has celebrated the harvest moon with a big dinner every year since I was a child, but now that we're all adults scattered across the country we try to do it over video calls and it feels forced and sad and none of us know how to let this tradition evolve or die gracefully.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Beloved rituals can become sources of obligation rather than connection when circumstances change but no one dares to reimagine them.

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