11.   He missed the presentations to meet his brother flying from Germany for a family reunion.

12.   Although a lot of Russian was spoken at their first family reunion, many Lopukhins married English speakers, so the reunion was a bilingual event.

13.   Americans everywhere have family reunions, but few relish the gatherings the way Appalachian residents do, the experts say.

14.   And because families are far-flung, the family reunion often now means traveling somewhere and getting together as a form of vacation.

15.   And it makes an effective primer for anyone facing their own dysfunctional family reunion.

16.   And so, Christmas became a time of family reunions.

17.   And then they got on the phone with the rest of the Puckett clan still living in the South, anxiously making plans for a big family reunion.

18.   And some family reunions are evolving to link African-American family lines with their white distant cousins.

19.   As for the others, sweeps represent a family reunion of sorts, a gift to their fans, and, of course, a nice paycheck.

20.   As the big event approaches, Melanie Harris and her sorority buddy Denise Kahn talk of sisterhood, but I imagine something more akin to a big family reunion.