The Impossible Truths of Love

by Hannah Beckerman

You need to know that I’ve always loved you even though you were never really mine to love.

I learnt a long time ago that the people you’re related to by blood aren’t always those you’re closest to. Sometimes you have to find your own version of love, your own version of family.

Familial love, she now understands, bears little relation to biology. Love transcends genetics, that much she has learnt.