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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 679523" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Just sleep-deprived mumblings here...</p><p>Why? Because when we are with strangers, there is no perceived pre-definition of roles that would preclude us being ourselves. With FOO... we subconsciously step back into "our place" in the family dance. Even when we haven't lived in that role for 40 years, it comes back. We rarely see the "cousins" (2nd and 3rd generation connections), but when we do... certain ones set the pace, and the rest of us follow. There's a "big mouth" type, and the rest of us have one-line comebacks for all the "standard" types lead-ins. The in-laws pretty much die laughing, but they can't keep up with us. Yet... put me in any other group of people, and I rarely have anything to say, much less zingers I toss out to the cousins.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 679523, member: 11791"] Just sleep-deprived mumblings here... Why? Because when we are with strangers, there is no perceived pre-definition of roles that would preclude us being ourselves. With FOO... we subconsciously step back into "our place" in the family dance. Even when we haven't lived in that role for 40 years, it comes back. We rarely see the "cousins" (2nd and 3rd generation connections), but when we do... certain ones set the pace, and the rest of us follow. There's a "big mouth" type, and the rest of us have one-line comebacks for all the "standard" types lead-ins. The in-laws pretty much die laughing, but they can't keep up with us. Yet... put me in any other group of people, and I rarely have anything to say, much less zingers I toss out to the cousins. [/QUOTE]
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