This makes it a lot easier to find next-of-kin in the event of an emergency and also finding any medical history or allergies,

If it's on your driver's license, your next of kin still have to be asked.

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

We do not seem to be finding tomorrow's Toscas.

We'll certainly use their help to try to locate the next of kin and identifying this person as well.

It was true. Sugar did treat her bees like next of kin but then again, they were.
Along with her manners, the accent she tried so hard to soften, a single china cup covered in blue daisies and a weathered box of essential oils, they were all she carried with her from her past. Her bees relied on her for shelter and food but she relied on them too. She made her living from their honey, not just the healthful liquid itself but from the salves and gels and tinctures and remedies she created and sold at farm stands or farmers' markets wherever she lived.
It was the most symbiotic of relationships.