![]() This essay first appeared in Broadview’ s December 2022 issue with the title “Our holiday promise.” My chosen family helps me quench that heat.Īlexandra Shimo is a writer and journalist in Toronto. ![]() My biological family is loving, but they create fireworks in my soul. So it turns out, I need both my biological and my chosen family. Should I forgive those who don’t ask for it? Probably, Kim said, and especially if one of them happens to be your mother. She expected those who love her not to hold on to minor slights.Īgain, I called Kim. I expected those who hurt me to take responsibility. She asked why I didn’t let it go since she’d said it in the heat of the moment. Taking Kim’s advice, I waited and called my mother in the new year. Maybe it’s time to hate it a little less.
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