42 years ago, my grandfather, his cousins and their parents organized the first of what would become a biannual family reunion with well over 100 relatives in attendance. In those decades, our family has grown so large, it's becoming unwieldy and a little detached.
The generation that started the tradition were fairly tight-knit, and many made an effort to see each other outside of reunion years anyway. But for the younger generations to come after, we only ever see most of our distant cousins at the biannual reunion.
