does your family have a record of your ancestors ?
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sure . My mom has been working on our family tree for years . She ’ s always updating it .
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do you have a copy of your family tree in your house ? I ’ d love to see it .
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user
I can show it to you now , if you like . I think it goes back about 8 generations so far .
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assistant
that ’ s amazing . Do you have a large extended family ?
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user
I ’ Ve got 30 cousins on my mom ’ s side and 10 cousins on my dad ’ s side .
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are you very close to your first-cousins ?
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user
the ones that are my age are close relatives . Now that I ’ m older , I don ’ t spend as much time with them as I used to , so I don ’ t know my younger cousins as well as the older ones .
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I see . who ’ s the head of your household ?
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user
it ’ s definitely my mother . And , her mother is definitely the matriarch of the bigger family .
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that ’ s interesting . What does your grandfather think of your step-mother ?
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at first , she was quite critical of her , but now that they ’ Ve been married for a few years , she ’ s starting to accept the fact that my father divorced my mother .
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