This is an All-Ears English podcast, episode 2318. Are you close with your family?

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All over the world, a great conversation topic is your family.

How tight-knit are you?

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Hello, Michelle. How's it going today? How's everything? Everything is good, getting over a little bit of a cold,

if you can hear it, but I'm okay. I'm okay. Lindsay, do you come from a

tight-knit family? I would say, kind of, we're relatively tight-knit. I don't think we're the

tightest of the tight-knits of the tightly-knitted families, but we're somewhat tight, I guess.

What about you? It seems like you do, yes? I would say so.

I would say my family is pretty tight-knit. Unfortunately, I don't live right near them. So I think we

would be even more tight-knit than, you know, we are. But yeah, but I mean, I talk to them all the

time. But yeah, I'd like to talk to

my brother more he actually called me yesterday but I couldn't talk but yeah do you talk to your brother

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