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A family member who was cut off (or voluntarily left) returns after years of silence. They are not necessarily the villain. They may have been the truth-teller the family couldn’t tolerate. Their return forces everyone to confront their own hypocrisy. The silence shifted from uncomfortable to suffocating
An exiled family member shows up at a wedding or funeral, forcing everyone to confront a decades-old secret. The Role Reversal: