Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro can’t believe how far the Jersey Shore family has come.

“It’s definitely hard to wrap your head around 15 years. But I think short and sweet, we’ve turned 15 minutes of fame into 15 years, and the story continues,” Mike, 43, exclusively shared with Us Weekly before the Thursday, September 11, season finale of MTV’s reality show. “We started out as a cast, and then we turned into friends, and now, we are truly family.”

When Jersey Shore premiered in December 2009, Mike, Ronnie, 39, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Jenni “JWoww” Farley, Angelina Pivarnick, DJ Pauly D, Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola and Vinny Guadagnino arrived in a New Jersey house as strangers.

Now, as another season of Jersey Shore: Family Vacation comes to an end, the cast —

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