Prompt #2 -- Family
Family was all that I had, and then I lost even that.
It was a small family, made so by the fact that I didn't want to let anybody else get close to us. People get close, means we -- and they -- were opening ourselves up to getting hurt again. The boys had already lost their mother. I wasn't going to ask anybody else to come into that.
So yeah, it was a small family. Just me and the boys. But it worked for us. We did well enough. We might've had our problems, maybe more more than our share, but we've done all right. We've survived.
My family might be down to just the boys now, but that's all right. Because I love them and I'm proud of them, moreso than they'll ever know.