Any other single no kids, no grandkids aunt or uncle who feels invisible at the holidays with family?

[Staph]

6. 71 here, no kids.

I hear you.

From time to time I get in a funk, particularly when we talk about family and genealogy. I look at that family tree and hear all of the family stories, and realize that I am a dead end branch.

Once my nieces and nephews, and some of the great-nieces and -nephews are gone, I will disappear from the world. No memories of me. No funny stories. Dead end branches are pruned from family trees.

But then I wipe my eyes and head back into the kitchen and pay attention to the conversation, try to add my two bits, make them laugh. While I'm still on this earth, I'm the "cool aunt", the funny one, the one with the great travel stories and horrible puns. And maybe, just maybe, that's enough.