My son is getting married on Sunday. I'm thrilled that my son has found someone he loves, who also loves him, and they are getting married. The wedding, though, is going to be incredibly stressful. For an example of a family that puts the fun in dysfunctional, consider the following:
1. The mother from whom I have been estranged since 1994 will be there. She has a tendency to try to disguise our estrangement by running up to me and giving me big hugs, which I cannot escape without causing a scene. And my father (who has been steadily drinking two liters of wine a day for my entire life) will no doubt get drunk and maudlin and start trying to persuade me yet again to reconcile with my mother.
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