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As for family, create your own with friends and neighbors. Every Thanksgiving, we get together with our dear friends who live 3 miles away. I met them at work. Their kids and our 2 kids are, for all intents and purposes, cousins. [/quote]

OP here.  People always say this but it's far easier said than done.  Do you know how hard it is to find anyone who is not celebrating major holidays with their own extended family?  I live out in the suburbs (Ashburn) and nearly every family I meet is from here or has tons of family here.  Or they travel to spend holidays with family.  I never meet anyone like us who is not from this area and has no local family here and doesn't spend holidays with family.  When I do invite people for holidays and they decline for whatever reason, I feel like I appear lonely and pathetic.  It is especially hard when most other families I meet/are at our preschool have 3+ kids.  Not that that's important, but it is much, much harder to try to make family friends with families with multiple kids when you just have one.[/quote]

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