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Brilliant! Love the recommended responses and the proactive news that can move the conversations right along!

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Your pictures of family gatherings over the years could easily be mine! So many familiar scenes of older relatives, questionable attire choices and yes, those folding chairs. Thanks for the great tips on "controlling your narrative" during these inquisitions.

I'll add a new one to the mix: answering questions about my adult son's life when he's going through a breakup, career shift and some other (all good) growth stuff. My go-to is to answer, "He's great, he's been making changes and doing a lot of good things right now." Any further interrogation gets the answer, " You know, that's his story to tell. And I'm sure at some point, he'll tell you."

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