But that’s what family is, isn't it? It’s traditions and trinkets that only matter when we hold them up against the mirrors of our lives, lending them meaning, lending them weight, until they become heavy enough to endure without us. We create the past in the things that we choose to remember about it. We turn everything into stories, and those stories matter because we say that they do. It’s all a wheel, and ours are the hands that turn it. . Seanan McGuire
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Family is a wheel. Many people have a wheel in their life, a wheel of friends and family they can go back to, a wheel they can ride over rough patches and tough times. Family is the wheel that drives our wheel through life, and we choose what we want to remember about it. We make the past into stories, even if the past is not very good. We turn everything into stories, and those stories matter because we say that they do.

Source: Midway Relics And Dying Breeds

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