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Seeing this question asked is sort of sad. Did this become a less common experience? What killed it?
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Yeah all the time. Every Thanksgiving, Christmas and new years between the ages of 14 and like 25 with our friends, cousins, acquaintances. Always someone's place, at least 20 teens +/- 3 years in my age, but the parties can get up to 100 people or more if they lined up. Our community of Slavic churches are huge tho. We'd take up the entire wedding hall on some events with 300+ teens your grade that we all knew fairly closely.
The only difference is that alcohol wasn't involved, and relationships were built for dating into marriage, not sex flings like the teen movies.
What happened after 25? Also thatβs a lot of people. My parties were like 10 people max and we were all on top of each other.
Groups just got smaller after people got married. The friend groups became more intimate, so mingling around with dozens of people stopped being the thing. We still get to see most people at events though. Mission conferences and other weddings and stuff. Now our gatherings are like 20-30 people for birthdays for kids and stuff.