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  When it comes to the nuclear family, I'm hopelessly sentimental.' I spent the whole summer before I went off tocollege mourning the fact that our family would never bethe same. If lny parents were feeling the same way, they hid it well, or atleast I didn't notice, and my younger brother was downright hostile to myproactive nostalgia.“Get over it,” he said simply.
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