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He cut back only after a full-scale family intervention (干预), in which relatives told him he'd gained weight.

He had offended his relatives

We write to communicate with relatives and friends.

With computers and Internet connections in so many households, colleges, business, people e-mailing friends and relatives all the time—or talking to them in writing in online chat rooms

"There's an ancient legend that as long as these eggs are made, evil will not prevail in the world," says Joan Brander, a Canadian egg-painter who has been painting eggs for over 60 years, having learned the art from her Ukrainian relatives.

Russians also get up an hour later on International Women's Day, the day for treating and celebrating female relatives.

Whenever she called her parents or other relatives, she always had to think about the time difference so that she wouldn't wake someone up or call when she knew they were at church.

with Facebook she could keep her relatives up to date on what she was doing.

They find close relatives more reliable.

Mary is going to get a little dog from one of her relatives.

I was able to buy it a little over a year ago because I had my relatives give me money for my birthday instead of clothes that wouldn't fit.

Among the most popular: paternity and kinship testing, which adopted children can use to find their biological relatives and families can use to track down kids put up for adoption.

If you have no friends or relatives, try to participate in several online communities, full of people who are always willing to share advice and encouragement.