My extended family still gets together for holidays but there's this underlying tension about politics that we all pretend isn't there and it's getting harder to ignore. The kids are getting old enough to notice and some of the adults are barely speaking to each other but we keep doing these big gatherings because that's what we've always done.
More people experience this than they realize.
Shared rituals become hollow when the people sharing them can no longer see each other clearly.
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