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To The Family Who I Can't Call Family Anymore

I'm sure you don't care, but I'm doing just fine without you.

KT Lombardo
Jun 07, 2016
Grand Valley State University
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To The Family Who I Can't Call Family Anymore
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Here's to my family who isn't my family anymore,

In case you were wondering. I'm doing OK. Actually, I'm doing great. I've graduated high school and I'm halfway through college. Who would have thought it would be this long since we've talked? I thought you were always going to be a part of my life, because family is always supposed to be a part of your life... right?

Wrong.

To all of those people who thought their extended family would remain in their lives forever and have been given a different awakening, I know how you feel. You would think that family is forever, but those relatives that a lot of us seem to have have proven us completly wrong. Blood may make you related, but loyalty will make you family. It is not about who shares the same DNA as you, but simply who has stood by your side when everything in your life has completly crumbled. When our lives got exteremly hard, you guys did not hesitate to look the other way. Family will never let one another fall, when in fact you guys were the one who pushed us over.

I'm not saying you should spend your time upset with how your blood relatives seemed to have turned their backs on you; I'm saying you should spend your time thanking them. Yeah, you read that right.

Thank them for teaching you that family might be everything, but family is not forever. Especially your extended family. Usually those are the ones who surprise you the most. Those aunts and uncles who don't even know what grade you're in, let alone how old you are. Thank you for allowing me to accept the fact that family isn't always blood, because sometimes your blood relatives are the ones who will turn on you the fastest.

So, for all of you who know how it feels to be forgotten about by relatives you might have tried to keep in your life, you're not alone. You have to remember that you're better then they ever will be.

Thank you to the family who has forgotten about me, because of the actions done by someone other than myself. You are missing out on my life and I am OK with that, because I am doing just fine without you guys in it.

In case you were wondering.

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