About these stories

Whenever I’d complain about someone, my mother would say “It takes all kinds to make a world.” I think about that saying a lot: she grew up in a family of twelve kids and I imagine that they had to work at getting along. In any group of people there are ones that you can admire and those that you can’t, and in these family stories this is true. I’m telling what I know about them and sometimes those stories are difficult. Sometimes they are inspiring. It takes all kinds to make a family.