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No matter how wonderful your own intentions this holiday season, you have zero control over what others will do. You can’t make people accept you.

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These real accounts of bizarre familial traditions will convince you that there really is no normal.

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Being a child of divorced parents, I can give only my side of the story.

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The holidays trudge up a lot of negative memories and associations, like the time your parents got you a geological rock kit for Christmas. These negative memories are deeply rooted, unresolved emotional scars that you probably shouldn’t be picking at.