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When family gatherings become too formal and lose their warmth

Our family dinners have become these weird formal affairs where everyone asks polite questions and gives polite answers and my teenage kids look like they're attending a business meeting. We used to roast each other and tell embarrassing stories and now I can't remember the last time someone said something that made the whole table crack up.

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You've accidentally turned your family into strangers who share a table.

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