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“I've heard the words "BUT THEY ARE FAMILY" one time too many times. My intent is to create a positive family atmosphere that no one will have to put "BUT THEY ARE" in front of ever again.”

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“I’m gonna come home, Mom, even if it’s not forever. I can take a semester off and then decide if I’ll go back next year. You guys need me here. It might be hard for Dad, and I—” “You’ll do no such thing,” Dad said, his voice raspy. “We didn’t mean to wake you,” Mom replied. “You didn’t. I always wake up when I’m needed.” Dad’s eyes on me were intense. “You’re not comin’ home.” “You’ve said it yourself, I belong here. You’re my family, and I’m supposed to be working this farm with you.” The words were heavy in my chest. “No, son. You don’t belong here. And not because we don’t love you or want you. You’re too damn bright a light for this place, and the last thing I want is to go to my grave knowing that my dreams for you dimmed that light.” “Dad… I…” I didn’t know what to say. Or what to feel, other than loved. “Nearly dying does a thing to a fella. I just… When I was goin’ down, all I was thinkin’ was, what if I died and my boy thinks I don’t love him? Don’t accept him? And listenin’ to you with your mama right now…you talk about that boyfriend of yours the way I always talked about her. Couldn’t believe she would give me the time a day, if I’m being honest. But I loved her and she loved me, and you love that boy just the same.”

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Book:Pretty Perfect

Source: Pretty Perfect

“Children's voices, soft and sweet, "Meethi meethi baatein," a nightly treat. Even at 2 o'clock, when the world's asleep, In those whispers, love runs deep.”

Poetry Family

Book:DANDELION ROOTS

Source: DANDELION ROOTS

“I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention,help,and conversation is to be lost.A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost”

Life Lessons

Book:Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“My Aunt Beverly sashayed when she walked. ... Her walk made the local boys sweat, well until those 'boys' were octogenarians. Anything she carried in her back pocket would have been as happily dizzy as a kid on a carnival ride. She sashayed like a Southern belle born in a time of dungarees and pedal pushers rather than restrictive skirts and social mores; she sashayed like a beautiful woman who was feeling sassy. She WAS beautiful, and she was sassy more often than not.”

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Book:It's a Southern Thing: Life's Different Here, Y'all

Source: It's a Southern Thing: Life's Different Here, Y'all

“If a man doesn't have his family that man has nothing. There's an absolute truth, true meaning in life, and that's a man and his family.”

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Author:Ron Baratono

“When we arrived, we found that the family had draped black linen across the front door. A sign was hung over the ribbon with this announcement scribbled in child’s handwriting: “Dad died. Come on in if you want to see him.”

Family Dad Died

Book:Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life

Source: Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life

“Would you like to be a family?" Lewis asked slowly, not because he was unsure but because he had nothing to offer her but his self and his time. "A family?" "Yes." "Like, brother and sister?" asked Margaret. "You and me." "Family," Margaret said again, this time through tears. "I thought it would never happen to me.”

Family

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“She didn't want food at all but rather, the feeling of emotional fullness, a hunger that could only be satiated by home, family, and familiarity.”

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Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“We don't know they're friends. They could be brother and sister." "Impossible. They're smiling." "You're right. They're definitely not related.”

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Book:Huda F Cares?

Source: Huda F Cares?

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