"Was it a surprise, do you think, to the members of her own family?"
All I'm asking you to do is to think of your family.
He did not want to think of his family now.
Since then, he had come to think of her as family.
He thinks well of his family and doesn't want to be a burden to someone.
Just because you think of your family one way doesn't mean a college will agree.
"Regardless to what you might think of my family, I was raised better than that."
He tried hard to not think of the man's family, children perhaps, waiting for a father that would never return.
But what's equally well known is what he thinks of his own family.
He could not sleep a wink just thinking of his family.