It was Jamie, who took me in without question and gave me a future I once couldn't even imagine Oliva, who did question, but also gave me answers Harriet, who, like me, believed she needed no one and discovered otherwise. So my true family was not just my mom, lost or found my dad, gone from the start and Cora, the only one who had really been there all along. The trick was to take what each could give you and build a world from it. You couldn't make any one person your world. None of them were perfect, and we couldn't expect them to be. Our family of origin, the family we created, as well as the groups you moved through while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. Cora was right- we had many families over time. It wasn't just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. “What is family? They were the people who claimed you.
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