About a week ago, our great aunt passed away. She was living in the family village in China, and only two weeks ago, my mom and two older sisters, and Great Uncle Bob visited her. She was 100 yrs old.
After her passing, the family has decided to sever all ties to the family village. There is no notable relative there, anymore, noone worth keeping in touch with. Over the many years of my (extended) family being in Canada, some in the village have taken advantage of our generosity by cheating us out of money. The visit two weeks ago was the last straw. Our great aunt was as kind a hostess as she could be. The complaints go against the other villager who calls herself "family." She only cares about what's in your wallets, rather than your own well-being.
It may seem drastic to sever all ties to the family village, seeing that there is still family there, but at what point do you decide that a second cousin, twice removed, whom you correspond with once a year by letter and whom you only see once every 3 to 5 years is still family? Not much love will be lost. Those in the village will lose on some of our generosity (money), and our family will be abandoning the family house in the village, of which the keys are with those greedy people anyway. I suppose they'll just take over the house, eventually.
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