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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a feeling OP is ignoring all of us who say this is FAR too long to ruminate over and therapy is in order, and also those who are asking pointed questions about what exactly she expected from relatives.

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OP here. I have read the replies and I'm not ignoring.

To those of you who wonder why I'm posting about this, 14 years after my father's death. They say time is a good healer. I don't think it is. Not for me anyway. Grief never goes away. You learn to live with it, but it never leaves you.

Try and see it from my point of view. My parents are dead and so are my grandparents (long gone). I have no siblings, so no nieces and nephews either. My DH and I don't have kids either.
I have a husband who is lovely and supportive, but it's not the same as close blood relatives.

My aunts and uncles (from both sides of my family) hardly mention my parents anymore these days. It's almost as if they never existed. 
It can feel very lonely.
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If you haven't already, ask your aunts and uncles about your parents and their early lives.

"Tell me what grandma and grandpa were like as parents. What did you do for fun as siblings? What was my mom/dad like as a kid? What did you like best about them as a sibling? Worse? Etc."

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