I figure now's as good a time as any to start explaining. No, no aunts and uncles from Dad's side. But there is a funny aside that I'll get to later. I don't think I thought of them as family yet. According to Webster's, that source of all things English, a family is a group of people living the same house or a group all descended from common ancestry.
Families are groups that are brought together by common bonds and look out for each other.
It was very easy to become friends, and, eventually become family. I wouldn't want you to have to go through this crap again. I don't like going through this crap, either, but it's all important and needs to be told in one lump . After my sophomore year of college, I left Mudd for Cal Poly Pomona right up the road, and made the mistake of living on campus. The dorms were deserted on weekends, something that I couldn't really cope with.