Keeper of the Skeletons

burden of the westernized nuclear family a need for a keeper of the skeletons may or may not be sufficient conversation at the annual reunion of the extended where advantages of the tribe & like-minded human groupings of non-western peoples shine over the gossiping keeper as s/he weaves a web of half-truths that have been passed down through the ages so that no one really knows the family history because he said-she said mentalities clog what could have been a rich telling of factual tales which may not have been as talk-showy & sappy but would nonetheless have been true.