A certain importance exists within family stories, which are passed down through generations to represent happiness, pain, loss, and laughter, however, they can also be told just for fun. Certain stories can even be attached to a person for his or her whole life. Not only do family stories shape the values that are held within the family, they allow for more communication to be made between younger and older generations. An interesting fact about family stories is that they are almost never completely true, members of the family, or whoever is telling the story, always has the choice of “spicing” up their role in the story. For example, some people always want to be the “hero” of the story so they will add as much drama to their role as possible,…