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Family Traditions
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- What traditions did he and his family have? Did they eat special foods on special days? Did they make a point of spending time together on certain days?
- As he grew older, were there family customs that he came to dislike? If yes, what were they, and did he have to go along with them anyway?
- As a teen, was there a special holiday on which he and his family carried out family traditions? Religious or state holidays, for example? What did he do on these days?
- How were birthdays or anniversaries special in his family? What did they do differently from what other families do? Was anything special done for his fifteenth, sixteenth, or eighteenth birthdays?
- Describe his everyday family routines. Did they always eat together at the table? Did they play games or spend time together in the evenings? Did these later become customs in his own family?
- Did he and his family get together regularly to take family portraits? Did he like to do this or did he dread it?
- Did he have family reunions when he was a teen? How often? What did he do at them? Were these times to revive family customs? Whom did he look forward to seeing?
- Of the customs that he shared with his family while growing up, which ones did he introduce to his own family?
- Many years later, what family tradition from this time was most memorable to him and why? Did it bring back memories of loved ones or the way life was in "yesteryear"?
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