She spent five minutes on the history of the family relationships. Here was a white family that had worked with the King family. That was a special treat.

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

My Mom and Dad and brother have grown through the years into my closest friends, the people who tell me the most searing truth, who give me soft places to rest and present to me a bright future when the only one I can see from my vantage point is dim and breaking before my eyes.

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.

We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.

...Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat.