What does family mean to you?

FAMILY

I ask as a person, who until a few weeks ago believed my birth father has passed via drowning. I grew up with my brother, raised by my mom and grandma.

I always wanted a bigger family, but my mom was an only child, but my grandma was one of six although I only knew a small portion of the cousins. So, 6-7 years ago, I uploaded a sample of my DNA to an ancestry site.

It turns out that I have – wait for it 8 half siblings!! WHAT? He did not drown???

I did not know what I thought – confused, overwhelmed, THOUSANDS of questions flowing through my mind…

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What could I possibly have in common with these ladies and gents apart from a birth father that was not a shining star to say the least? I won’t bore you with details apart from saying that there are three of us that were born in 1966! WTFriggle?

What does FAMILY mean to you?

It means taking the great with the awful

Because you are bound by blood

That is what I think family means to me.

It does not mean you can depend on them, or does it?

I had a Zoom call with the 4 sisters – wow! Amazing ladies – we all resemble each other, but one looks very similar to the way I looked at that age…..

We are planning to meet up in the summer.

Let’s see how this progresses…..

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