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To: Gauguin who wrote (53024)	7/5/2000 12:57:22 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

There really is nothing to be done with my mother. She means well, and has different sensibilities. Last night she wanted us all to eat together because it was a holiday, and her frame of reference was holiday get-together, not casual cookout. She was running around trying to create the type of holiday formality we have at Christmas, New Year's and Easter, which was at cross-purposes. I did try to explain after I cooled down. She also feels uncomfortable when there is silence at meal times, and feels that she must say something, anything, to fill what she perceives as uncomfortable gaps. I try to explain to her that we just don't talk as much as she does, but there's no tactful way to say that.