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where strangers who share your DNA ask why you're not married yet.

means A gathering that brings together people who were once connected — family, classmates, old colleagues — after a stretch of time apart.

from Straight from the Latin: the prefix re- ('again') bolted onto union, from unus, 'one' — so literally a 'uniting again.' English borrowed it through French réunion in the 1600s, and it has meant the coming-back-together of scattered people ever since.

name tags
Proof everyone forgot everyone within a decade
island too
A French volcanic island east of Madagascar
high school
Same drama, new mortgages and receding hairlines
dodo home
Reunion's neighbor hosted the extinct bird
for instance

reunion tower — 368-foot observation tower in dallas, texas, opened 1978

class reunion movie — 1982 film starring spanky mcfarland about a high school class gathering

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