Stretching The Limitations Of Family

There are people who believe that the only family a person ever truly belongs to is the family to which they are born, and that family by birth should always come first.

Then again, there are people who believe that a person's family of choice -  that is, those people a person meets throughout the course of one's life who become important to them on a level that transcends friendship, must take precedence over relatives that are only known to one another simply due to the random accident of being born of the same bloodline.

I'm somewhat straddlin' the fence on this. While I value my birth family beyond measure, I feel the exact same way about my family of choice.