People don't get to choose their family, but if you have the family you would choose - that's happiness.
Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time.
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Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time.
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