An excerpt from a story I am writing:
"Dr. Leonard McCoy” steps up. “Isn't family only related by blood?” She shakes her head at her “Great-Grandfather”. “People may be related by blood, but it doesn't always transform them into a loving family. She who bore me was related by blood but she could not love me. She was never a family member to me otherwise she never would have abandoned me the way she did. Uncle Spock and I are not related by blood but he has accepted me as a member of his family and loves me in his own Vulcan way as a father would love a child. You rescued me, as a very young and traumatized child, and came to love me from that moment on. To me, a family is more than a blood-connection, it is how you feel towards someone and treat them as preciously as you would treat yourself.”
