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I don't think anyone has a normal family.

I come from a pretty strange family.

Nobody is weirder than your own family, and I think teenagers feel that particularly acutely; the fact that you can walk five steps ahead of your parents and still be in the same family, but refuse to acknowledge it.

I feel like plenty of people have normal-seeming families that, as they're growing up, feel awful. I'd rather have one that looks weird from the outside but felt really normal.

Every family is dysfunctional.

Family is everything.

One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.

A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.

I'm endlessly fascinated with the ways families work and the ways they don't.