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The sentence you quote, 'It's been long since I've seen my parents' is not one you'd hear many native speakers say. It's not grammatically correct - the form, as you rightly say should be either 'It's been a long time since I last saw my parents', or 'I haven't seen my parents for ages.'
But, there again, native speakers of English do sometimes make grammatical mistakes!
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