You're not alone

<sub>Booth: I'm sorry that you had to go through it again. Watching your family drive off. You know. Leave you behind. I'm sorry.

Bones: My father is, is...</sub>

_{Booth: He's your dad. And he loves you.}

_{Bones: You know, I'm just, I'm just one of those people who doesn't get to be in a family. That's ...}

_{Booth: Listen, Bones. Hey, there's more than one kind of family.}

_{From the TV show Bones, Season 2 Episode 11 "Judas on a Pole"}

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<sub>There is more than one kind of family.

I use to describe my family as just my biological parents and sibling, but the older I have become, I have realised that family for me shouldn't be so strictly defined.

My friends are my family. They enrich my life so much and they are always there when I need them.

And my former host family in Japan, I call them family too. I even called them my Japanese mum, dad and little sis too. One day when I was having some issues, my Japanese dad gathered the family around and said (translated from Japanese): "I know that you are here for study but when you are here with us, you are our daughter".

And I can't forget my dA family too

Family is everywhere</sub>