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How to continue chosen family traditions after losing the person who started them

My chosen family gathered every year for Thanksgiving at Marcus's house but he died last month and we all keep texting about it but nobody wants to say we should still do it without him.

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The death of a central figure threatens the continuity of rituals that bind a chosen family together.

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