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In article >, damsel-
says...
> On 26 Dec 2004 18:05:26 GMT, ospam (DJS0302) wrote:
>
> >>You have to learn to say NO. Unless you are underage, no on can make you
> >>spend time with others you don't like.
> >
> >Well all the other relatives were there to so I almost had to go.
>
> Duty calls, huh? Been there, done that. I think you did the right thing
> by going, as long as you care for everyone else at the get together.
>
> It sucks that you've got two bad apples in the family. You *can* turn it
> around in your head that you're visiting the people you love, and that the
> others are just a necessary evil for now.

If it weren't for the bad apples my family gatherings wouldn't have been
any fun at all. My uncle was a loveable drunk, and a great uncle, well..
the stories were something else.

You could only stand so much when it was only the immediate family and
my grandfather who we'd nicknamed Saint Anthony.