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TomVilmer

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8. When you run away from a bad country...
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 03:12 PM
Jul 2018

... you might pick up a family on the way. Orphan children from the village, and later others might become company for the travel. They are not relatives by blood, but together they are all what they got.

Extended families are common in most cultures. My own daughter studied far away in another town, living with an "aunt", who had space - a friend of friend of a friend. Not paying for rent, but living there as a daughter. Now this good woman is old, and my grown up daughter is supporting her.

If civil unrest would have happened fast, this "aunt" and my daughter might have been refugees together. And they ARE family now, what ever the blood says.

"The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society", says the Human Rights. But when you are a refugee, only family by blood counts.

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