I really enjoyed reading about your memories and am reminded of how my family was similar. When my great-grandmother was alive the entire family would gather at her house for Thanksgiving and Christmas. As long as she was alive she pulled everyone together. After she died at the age of 92 there was never a family holiday where aunts, uncles, cousins, etc gathered. It's interesting how one person can draw people together and their passing causes things to fall apart.
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@marxrab, I have thought about that, from time to time. When my dad died, my aunt (whose house that was) became the family's "senior keeper," but she really wasn't that social... so gatherings became something that happened once every 5-6 years... and it was just never the same. It wasn't that we didn't like each other... but there were no threads that pulled us together anymore.