“You can choose your friends, but not your family.”
No truer words were ever spoken. How we are assigned our ancestors is nothing short of a pig-in-a-poke. Not one of us has a say in which two X & Y chromosomes do the tango that endows us with our traits, appearances, talents, and much more. So, if we know nothing, or very little about our ancestors, should we leave the unknown alone? Or should we go fishing in our family closet with no clue what we might catch?
Bobby Ray Raford chooses to leave it alone. He says, “What you don’t know can’t haunt you. But if you fish and hook an ancestor or two from a bad pool of DNA, that knowledge will always be swimming in your memory pond.”
Gramma never spoke a word about any of their kinfolk. So why should he? He doesn’t want to and he won’t.
“We’ll see about that.”
“True friends are sometimes closer than family – and might even be family!”
A southern family saga filled with real life experiences, newfound friends, difficult struggles, and love and forgiveness.