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That depends on what you mean. Both parents departed from the world five years apart, and me and my siblings experienced a rift because of the incompatible ways we mourned, and so they have ghosted me. Which means I'm all on my own. I have acquaintances I sometimes refer to as family, but they have drifted away from me in the other sense of the word, the physical distance sense, and there exist communication barriers. I definitely don't consider my community to be family, they are exclusivist and absent-minded, and I'm only here to honor the role of heir.
I hate that people can't accept that everyone mourns differently. I had a falling out with my wife's family over the same thing