Akin

We spend most of our lives holding on to objects, he thought, and finally they fall from our cold dead hands and those who tidy up after us have to worry of what to do with all this stuff.

" 'Don't underestimate the blood tie, ' Vivienne added. 'Like calls to like.'
Noah loathed this kind of mysticism.
'Strands of DNA do not sniff each other out.' "

" That old-fashioned word again. Kith and kin, kinsfolk, kindred; like something out of J. R. R. Tolkien. Did she mean legally or genetically ? In what sense could you really be kin to someone you'd never met ? "