My family is pretty small. There's just me, my parents and my (older) brother. I still live at home, so in terms of proximity I am very close to my parents, but mostly my family just sort of tolerates each other. That's not to say that we don't love each other but we see eye to eye on almost nothing and pretty much all just do our own thing. My brother lives in Washington, so I rarely see him.
As for extended family, there isn't anyone left alive on my mother's side. On my father's side I have three uncles, two aunts (by marriage) and several cousins as well as my grandmother, but I really only ever see them at Christmas (and sometimes not even then).
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