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[quote=Anonymous]My mom's family is full of drama and dysfunction. My mother was an addict and alcoholic and died of an OD 7 years ago. My grandmother was abused by my heroin addicted uncle and died after he beat her up.  My uncle died of an overdose two years later. Another uncle is prison at the ripe old age of 79 because he was a drug dealer.  The remainder of the family is not as sick, but also have their issues with mental health, pot farming and drug dealing.  They are all of out state in Arkansas.  We were not close when I was a kid, but we took my grandmother to see her sisters every summer for a week.  I have not been in contact with the rest of the family since my mother's death.

This week I received a message on Facebook from a second cousin on that side of the family.  Her brother died about 8 months ago from cancer. She said that she "just found something out" that she needs to tell me and asked me to call her. It all sounded very dramatic and mysterious.

What would you do?  I am sorry for her for the loss of her brother.  He was young - late 40s.  Most of the rest of the family (my grandma and her sisters, her mother and father) is dead, except for the cousins. At the same time, the entire family is crazy and drama prone.  The less we are around each other the less the drama.  I don't want to get sucked into some ridiculous family stuf when I have worked very hard to create a calm, healthy family environment for my kids. [/quote]

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