“He's not our family, she said. That's what the people in the passport offices kept saying to us. Yeah but that's okay, I said. Family can be more things than people say it is.” FamilyChosen FamilyBiological FamilyAdopted Family Book:Gliff Source: Gliff
“These two had no real understanding of doing anything alone. They had come together at such a young age that they knew of no world but the one they inhabited alongside each other. But they were not twins. And they had no illusions that they were, despite what their mother pretended in polite company. Each one of the children knew how Hud had joined the family. June had always told the kids the story with a sense of awe and destiny. She told them sometimes wild circumstances help fate unfold. Jay and Hud. An apple and an orange. They did not have the same abilities or wear the same virtues. And yet, they still belonged side by side.” AcceptanceEqualityInclusionAdoptionBiological Family Book:Malibu Rising Source: Malibu Rising