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Uploaded: 2025-11-04
Description: The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with. The problem of modern society is it turns the whole world into a school. Everybody's wearing jeans, everybody's the same.

Lela Loren

Power' usually starts principal photography around mid September, and the first table read is always like one big family reunion. The most common comment we hear is how 'well rested' everyone looks... something that can't be said by the end of the season.

American Actress

Sigourney Weaver

I still am in touch with several friends from high school. I don't go to reunions much. I'm afraid that if I go back to the school, they'll suddenly go, 'You know what? We've checked the records and you still have one more French class. Get back in here.

Rikishi

In our family, we don't know why there are so many of us in wrestling. We think about it at the dinner table when we have big family reunions, and it just comes from a passion and love we have for the industry.

American Wrestler

Shawn Ashmore

Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie.

Canadian Actor

Holly Marie Combs

At this point, I can almost never see myself saying no to a con or a 'Charmed' reunion, because it's so important to so many people I've already met personally.

Paul Feig

I've never been to a class reunion or anything because I'm always afraid of that one - there's going to be some 'Carrie'-like incident.

American Director

Paul Theroux

What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.

American Novelist

Erma Bombeck

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

American Journalist

George Harrison

As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.

British Musician

Louis Walsh

A Westlife reunion is definitely going to happen - but I have no idea when.

Irish Celebrity

Reunions often have emotional importance, evoking nostalgia and happiness.

Emotional Significance

Reunions are typically organized ahead of time and can be formal like class reunions or informal like friends meeting.

Planned Events

The word is commonly associated with family, school, or community gatherings.

Common Associations

This definition implies an emotional connection or relief at being together again.

Emotional Context

A reunion isn't always positive; context matters—it can be unwanted or awkward too.

Not Always Joyful

Beyond people, 'reunion' can describe the coming together of objects, animals, or concepts.

Broader Use

When referring to the island, 'Reunion' is capitalized and functions as a proper noun.

Proper Noun

As a geographic term, it's important to know the specific place named 'Reunion' to avoid confusion.

Geographic Specificity

 The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with. The problem of modern society is it turns the whole world into a school. Everybody's wearing jeans, everybody's the same.

A kinder, gentler...

 As an estranged parent and child meet at a fraught family reunion, a little girl mumbles, “How do you do?” from behind a dirty curtain. After the death of his best friend, a lonely king travels to the end of the world in search for answers and walks into a bar.

How to make a sad story...

 And family is extremely important to elephants. They grow up in very tight-knit families and they have extended families. And it's just like our family reunions where you have all the aunts gathering around with all the food they're going to bring and plan,

The family structure of...

 touch with each other and it's a big family reunion and yet like many family reunions it's not all peace and light there's a lot of conflict and the question is how do we deal with our differences how do we deal with our deepest differences given the

The walk from "no" to...

 deep, deep connection." But I never felt that connection. If there was a pulse, it was very weak or hardly at all. And I almost felt in the course of that reunion that I was auditioning to be my father's son. When the book came out,

Colin Grant: The son of...

 And here also people are helping to find missing children. A father posted his son's picture onto the Internet. After thousands of resends in relay, the child was found, and we witnessed the reunion of the family

Yang Lan: The generation...

 are in touch with each other. And it's a big family reunion. And yet, like many family reunions, it's not all peace and light. There's a lot of conflict, and the question How do we deal with our differences?

 appears to be an important venue for elephant family reunions andrea is beginning to understand why the bayaka call this place the village of elephants

Elephant Family Reunion...

 how you stand up to bigotry at a family reunion without hate, argument and throwing over the table. Now, anybody can learn these tactics, as I've said,

Loretta J. Ross: Don't...

 to the tracking collars we know that this is actually a family reunion ma T has just met his father for the first time

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