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    How To Survive the Holidays With Family

    Published/Updated: Jul 17, 2025 · Erica Ho · Under a minute read

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    The only way that you realistically can.

    Sometimes love is about showing another human being every single part of you, and having that person accept and understand you completely. Other times, though, love is about caring enough about some insane, twisted, aggravating creature from another planet that you're willing to show up and play along with their insane, twisted, aggravating alien games. Sometimes love is about getting in the car with your partner, and, as you drive for seven hours, saying to each other, "We are about to eat a steaming platter of shit. We are going to eat it and eat it and we're going to act like it's delicious."

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    Erica Ho is a former reporter for TIME in Hong Kong and former geek at Gizmodo and Lifehacker. Her work has appeared in CNN, Yahoo!, MSN, Mashable, Travel + Leisure, Conde Nast Traveler and Quartz to name a few places.

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