Please put up with me........two quotes.....
The first from Richard Bach...(Jonothon Livingston Seagull)....
"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood,but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one's family grow up under the same roof."
The second from Henry David Thoreau..........
"Seldom is a man so fortunate as to be related to his true family by blood".
'Nuf said