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Fumesucker

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2. The season really bites if you have major conflict in your family or don't have family

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Sun Dec 21, 2014, 06:59 PM

Dec 2014

I'm watching one of my neighbors deal with it, she desperately wants to see her grandkids but she and her daughter are estranged (largely because her son in law is a huge prick). Christmas is going to be hard on her this year, I hear about it every time I talk to her.

Christmas is by no means a time of universal good cheer.

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i'm from queens too. moved to phoenix 25 years ago. DesertFlower Dec 2014 #1

Let's see, in order, I lived in Sunnyside, Astoria, Flushing, Briarwood, and Jamaica. rug Dec 2014 #4

i was born in ridgewood, queens. lived in east new york brooklyn DesertFlower Dec 2014 #6

Forest Hills Gardens. rug Dec 2014 #7

OMG. forest hills gardens. remember DesertFlower Dec 2014 #8

The season really bites if you have major conflict in your family or don't have family Fumesucker Dec 2014 #2

That is very, very true. cbayer Dec 2014 #3

It's a cliche that misery loves company Fumesucker Dec 2014 #5

Sorry that you were banned. cbayer Dec 2014 #9