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Post by sparklymouse on Jan 6, 2009 15:51:01 GMT -5
Considering only 4 club members--Claudia, Kristy, Mary Anne, and Mallory (and Shannon?)--were from Stoneybrook, it would be odder if the others did have family in town than not. Jessi and Logan, for example, moved away from the towns where their extended families were.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Jan 6, 2009 16:14:53 GMT -5
I know Kristy mentioned her other grandmother (not Nannie) giving them some old costumes or something in one of the earlier books, so apparently her dad's mom is still around. Other than that, I don't know why more cousins, ect weren't mentioned. It would make sense if they lived in LA or NYC or someplace that people are always moving to, but Stoneybrook didn't seem like that kind of place. As in, it didn't seem like the kind of place that all the BSC parents would have moved to in their youth to make lives from themselves away from their families.
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Post by wanderingfrog on Jan 6, 2009 21:03:47 GMT -5
Considering only 4 club members--Claudia, Kristy, Mary Anne, and Mallory (and Shannon?)--were from Stoneybrook, it would be odder if the others did have family in town than not. Jessi and Logan, for example, moved away from the towns where their extended families were. We also know that Stacey has cousins in New York. They're mentioned in #3.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 6, 2009 21:10:39 GMT -5
^And her portrait.
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Post by supprazz on Feb 3, 2009 11:40:44 GMT -5
well they do live in a small town, not an urban city where they would most likely have relatives there or in surrounding areas
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Post by wenonah4th on Feb 4, 2009 10:04:21 GMT -5
I know there's been a lot of specualtion about it, but we never know whether or not there's any relation among the Porters (Sharon's parents and "Morbidda Destiny").
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2009 20:43:56 GMT -5
I never thought that it was wierd that they didn't live near there cousins. My cousins on my dad's side lived about an hour away and since we didn't get along well when I was younger I couldn't imagine living in the same town or going to the same school. My cousins on my Mom's side are sixteen and eleven years older than me. I still haven't met the oldest one (except on facebook)because of a family falling out she had with her dad (my uncle) when I was a baby.
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Post by greer on Feb 11, 2009 20:58:50 GMT -5
Heh, your family sounds like mine.
On my dad's side, I have only met his aunt, who died when I was 9. My dad has 2 brothers (who are both basically con men) and a sister I didn't even know about until last year.
My mom has a cousin who didn't speak to anyone in the family for 25 years or so. And now she's mad at my mom because my mom didn't send the old family photos like she asked. My aunt doesn't have any of her own, because her dad got "mad one day" and threw out all of theirs. My mom's other cousin's wife won't give anyone any pictures, even though she has my great-grandmother's albums. She lies about it.
My grandmother and her mother-in-law didn't speak for sixteen years, even though my great-grandmother baby-sat my mother everyday when my mom was four. She would have to go my grandma outside the house when she came to pick her up.
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Post by firecausesburns on Feb 12, 2009 2:35:59 GMT -5
My father's side of the family is your perfect-seeming family unit - five kids, all married for 20+ years with children of their own. I'm the second-youngest of 13 or so cousins on that side, and I grew up seeing them all at Christmas and stuff, so I don't know most of them too well but I've always known them. On my mum's side, there are six kids, but only three of them have kids of their own. I only have three cousins on that side, and I've only met one of them (twice in my life). That side of the family's scattered and fairly estranged, so I've always been used to that and I didn't find it weird that a lot of kids in Stoneybrook didn't seem to have or be cousins.
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Post by wenonah4th on Mar 11, 2009 7:50:31 GMT -5
Maybe they just don't get mentioned much.
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Post by tiff85 on Mar 22, 2009 18:01:52 GMT -5
I can agree, we never hardly hear about the BSC's extended family, only Karen's.
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Post by wenonah4th on Mar 23, 2009 5:22:53 GMT -5
We hear a little bit about Jessi's family back in Oakley. And we know that some of Kristy's cousins live near enough to drive for Elizabeth's and Watson's wedding.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Mar 24, 2009 21:42:29 GMT -5
And we know about Claud's cousin
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Post by Amalia on Sept 24, 2013 1:43:20 GMT -5
My niece who is actually two years older than me and her family lives in a neighboring town. I have 15 cousins and they all live in neighboring towns too. When we moved to Montana, four of my dad's siblings moved with us so that was six cousins and we lived in one small town.
As for the BSC, I love how, like Cokiemason, Keisha was Jessi's best friend.
And also, like a lot of people I know who lived in small towns like Stoneybrook, they for a large part kind of want to move out when they become adults hence the reason for not many cousins being around?
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Post by virgoscorpio on Sept 24, 2013 17:45:50 GMT -5
I wonder if Stoneybrook were created today if the families would be the same (as in the typical nuclear family). Maybe more of "Jamie's parents are Adam and Steve" or "Charlotte lives with her Grandparents" or "Jessi has single mother".
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