When I say Family you think of....?

Peeps,
Went to the SF library today, my significant other took me as was promised. Taking me to the library will reduce me to random bouts of smiliness (that's not a word is it? smiliness, I'm making that one up right?) and girlish overtures very quickly. It really is like taking me to an enchanted land. After going through my mental booklist that I keep, and by default checking out other books in those same sections, I made it out with 27 books. A good haul if I say so myself. (sidenote: wow haven't had a sidenote in awhile, anywho, as I sit here writing this my sweetie scolded me for leaving the I-can't-believe-it's-not-butter butter out, and then proceeded to lick it to make sure it hasn't gone bad...yeah I know laughs :) ) Anywho one of the books I grabbed is a compilation of short stories all based around the question of family and what makes a family. A topic that you know I'm highly interested in, if you frequent my blogs. It was heartwarming, and sometimes brutally honest to read these stories of other people's lives and how they had swam through deep waters of how to make their own family.
As I've said before and I'll probably say again, blood nor marriage nor any other superficial bond that humans try to put on each other without a basis for it does not make a family. I have family, some made by blood, other by deep friendship and an almost boderline unhealthy trust/love, some by odd circumstance, and some I'm realizing by the most unconventional methods. Family isn't that odd cousin you've never met and barely know the name of, it isn't that odd twice removed Uncle that sends you a random postcard. Family is the friend who listened to you cry over a great loss, it's the friend who though distanced by miles FedEXed you a care package, it's the friend you can never seem to sever ties with because to do so would break your heart. Family is the rabbit, that after a long harrowing day of life, has made you burst into full belly laughter with his crazy antics and light hearted look at life.
Family in any of its forms is completely irreplaceable, completely undeniable, and completely worthwhile once you've found it.