Nobody made me do any of it.

There was no sacrifice, not in the way people mean, because sacrifice implies you handed over something you wanted for something you didn’t.

And I wanted this.

Somewhere in that first year, without noticing the moment it happened, those three girls stopped being a burden I had shouldered and became simply my family — the thing my life was for.

You do not sacrifice your life for your family.

Your family is your life.