“I asked Dr. White if the same might be true of us, if our physical borders might also be a blur of microbes that connect us to each other and our environment. Do we share an open border connected by microbes with other people? “Well sure,” he said. “That’s one definition of a family.”

“I asked Dr. White if the same might be true of us, if our physical borders might also be a blur of microbes that connect us to each other and our environment. Do we share an open border connected by microbes with other people? “Well sure,” he said. “That’s one definition of a family.”

— Eugenia Bone