Our relatedness with other living forms provides us something we sorely need: a reverence for the life of all creatures great and small, and an expanded view of our place in nature__ot as rulers over it, but as participants in it.
Family. It was just a word_Could see its letters all strung together. But it was a symbol, too. And people thought they knew what it meant_It was a thing everyone had an opinion about__hat it was all you had when you didn__ have anything else, that family was there, that blood was thicker than water, whatever. But when Nailer thought about it, most of these words and ideas just seemed like good excuses for people to behave badly and get away with it. Family wasn__ more reliable than marriages or friendships_maybe less_The blood bond was nothing. It was the people that mattered. If they covered your back, and you covered theirs, then maybe that was worth calling family.
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Family. It was just a word_Could see its letters all strung together. But it was a symbol, too. And people thought they knew what it meant_It was a thing everyone had an opinion about__hat it was all you had when you didn__ have anything else, that family was there, that blood was thicker than water, whatever. But when Nailer thought about it, most of these words and ideas just seemed like good excuses for people to behave badly and get away with it. Family wasn__ more reliable than marriages or friendships_maybe less_The blood bond was nothing. It was the people that mattered. If they covered your back, and you covered theirs, then maybe that was worth calling family.
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