Summed up, my family is ****, a good friend and her family who displays confederate flags, greets unwanted visitors with a shotgun, and supported Trump before the riot thing treats my better than my own mom, my family is pretty rotten with those who won't drop the **** and quit fighting for a death in the family, and basically my nieces and [all but one of] my nephews are really all I consider family now. Because "family" doesn't even really apply to this group of people of various blood relations.