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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would say it isn't common at all (white person). I know all my cousins, all my first cousins once removed, and a lot of second cousins. And see them regularly.[/quote]

Hold up. Estranged doesn’t mean doesn’t get together in the regular. 
Estranged means there was a falling out or deliberate boundary set and there will be no getting together. Totally different. [/quote]

I know. I was figuring those estranged people don't get together. So I was using it as shorthand, and as a way of identifying that nobody has been cut off so that I don't know them - I do have far-flung cousins, and it would be easy to not know their spouses or children, but it wouldn't be as a result of being estranged, rather a result of not going to whereever they live to visit, and vice versa.

I don't have any estranged family members. I've always been told how my grandmother had a couple of siblings who didn't speak and she made a point of talking things out, engaging, and forgiving. That ethic has been passed down to her children and grandchildren.  There are times we disagree, but we always work it out.

I do have boundaries with some of my family members - what I will / will not do. But that's for me. We still speak/engage/love.

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