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“We’re related!”
As families age, a new generation makes fresh commitments. Children arrive, and connections multiply as relationships embrace today’s “connected” society.
Today we have “blended families” – children, cousins, friends, his, mine, ours. Families are no longer self-contained islands. Rather than exclude, we include. Our past ways are forged into new patterns, and our personal bonds are broadened.
New online communities spring up daily. Artists show their paintings on the Web. Poets post new material instantly, sharing their feelings through inspired words. Creativity abounds, offering new interactions for everyone.
Connections form and communication opens. We grow stronger by merging with the diverse and interrelated Web. We gain support, opportunity, choices. We join networks that expand in all directions.
Do our faces reflect our lines of connection? Do they shift as time passes? Does each smile and laugh engrave the lines around our mouths, eyes, and ears? Laugh lines. Does each tear press indelible creases between our brows? A worried expression is easily read across a room. Our feelings and experiences are scattered among our features. We wear our hearts, not on our sleeves, but in the tracks and lines of our faces. Maybe our laugh lines are now lifelines, mapping our newly interlaced relationships. Maybe the lines of our faces mirror a life of tying ourselves more into our world, each new wrinkle, hinting at the deepening connections.
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