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If there’s one thing guaranteed to create some kind of family ripple, wave or tsunami it’s a family gathering. It’s hard enough just getting along with those in your immediate family, without throwing grannies, aunts, in-laws and lots of alcohol into the mix as well, but it’s occasionally required that the whole gaggle of you get together to celebrate somebody’s birth, death, marriage or whatever.

Enough has been written about such gatherings to fill the hole in the ozone layer, because there is just so much potential for a good story. A bust-up, a reunion, a love affair, a drunken argument, grannies getting sloshed, uncles flirting, mothers weeping—oh, it’s all there when a family gets together, so you had better be prepared for some fireworks.