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    Something Broken, Something Beautiful: A Family Bond Strengthens Through Crisis

    by Laura Milligan Sep 23, 2019 3 minutes
    Something Broken, Something Beautiful: A Family Bond Strengthens Through Crisis, by Laura Milligan. Photograph of 2 men sitting atop a car, by Kylo
    Photograph by Kylo

    A story of two step-brothers who depict a familial love that transcends the stereotype of what a family is supposed to look like, act like or represent

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    I’ve been married to my husband Chris for eleven years. That is eight years longer than my own parents were married and ten years less than my husband’s parents were married. Both of us come from divorced families; mine ended their marriage after three kids and three years, and Chris’s parents split after twenty-one years of marriage. When Chris and I met, our families were full of steps,

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