So I added my sister's number back into my phone. I'm glad she called and didn't write me off. I'll keep the relationships with my sisters who refuse to discuss our mother with me, that's fine with me if that's their stance. We can have normal relationships, just never discussing our mother again.

The now astranged aunt and her daughter are of no consequence anyway. They never called me anyway.

My dad made no attempt to make peace aside from initially telling me to let it go, then he never called me again. Is that love? Is that how a father is supposed to act? I never really had a father at all. My real father was nothing to me and died. My step father was like a friend, sort of, but not really anything to me now.

He did protect me a few times in the distant past. He once picked me up when my bf couldn't take me home, he once told an ex bf to get lost (that bf ended in a restraining order), he told another ex bf if he ever hit me again he'd kill him, and he told another guy who 'kidnapped' me (not really, just got me in his car, and spontaneously took me to dinner at his fancy country club, where he confessed his feelings for me which I did not reciprocate) told him that he shouldn't have taken me like that and he should kick his ***. I was actually pretty scared and called my parents from the club to tell them I was alright, it was creepy.