To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.
As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.
I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.
We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.
A lot of people think I grew up with just my brother and me, but mom was there even when she wasn't. We had a good household.
I realized that food was actually a metaphor for bringing us all together. It's about us communicating and being like family.
Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, but never less than they thought we were capable of.
We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together.
We were great mates. We didn't really go out together because we never really had the time to go out. But we were with each other all the time anyway because we were working all the time. We could sit down and talk for hours, and we still can. We just understood each other.
We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.