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When you're friends with someone, it's normal to want to take care of them, and feed them, and make sure they're healthy, and make sure they grow to become good adults, even if that means scolding them sometimes, right? Well, it's not like I'm so stupid I don't realize that that's some overlap with "family" and "parents" in doing that, but even so, I still thought that was normal for "friends," too.

So where's the line? At what point do you stop being friends and start being family? And what's the difference between the two? Also, what are the differences - besides the obvious ones - between "siblings" and "cousins" and "parent and child?" How do you pick?

These are all opinion questions for anyone. I'm interested and it seems like a nice conversation topic, rather than monsters and death.