KURT VONNEGUT ON THE NEED FOR BUILDING EXTENDED FAMILIES

H]uman beings need all the relatives they can get–as possible donors or receivers not necessarily of love, but of common decency.

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When we were children in Indianapolis, Indiana, it appeared that we would always have an extended family of genuine relatives there. Our parents and grandparents, after all, had grown up there with shoals of siblings

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