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To be clear (and I should have been earlier), I actually do love my dad's wife (now, had to forgive her for being the "other woman"), and did (with difficulty, due to his alcoholism) my mother's husband. I just never considered them my step-parents in any way.
I have friends that I've kept since high school. I live a couple hours away from them all, so sometimes I'm jealous at the time they still get to spend together, but they are my "true extended family". My grandparents are all gone. But my mom and dad's sisters and brothers and all their kids...people I have known in my life. Not really "family".
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