Carol, I'm pretty sure I heard it in a movie, but the quote is: "friends are the family we choose for ourselves" I do know that Edna Buchanan wrote it, but I don't know what piece I've heard or read it in... WAIT! I heard it in the Peanut Butter Falcon. An underrated movie. I love its message

nicole -- ^^^ That really 'hits the spot!"

Everybody's gone, all the dishes are done, and I'm going through a pile of old pictures. Among them are some sort of autograph book? They look like words of advice to my grandparents when they first got married, but people continued to write in it. Tears of joy are just streaming down my face! The first one is my grandfather. He was very quiet, but always had a funny little line or two here and there. He did not disappoint with his last line. This next one had to have been written by my mom when she was about 10 or 11. She was always so kind-hearted, and always had the right thing to say. She must have changed a lot between the time she wrote that and what she was like when I knew her.

Rusty