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He recognised Aunty Billie at once
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“So, Aunty, how’ve you been keeping all these years? He asked nonchalantly
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“Well, Aunty, you did
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“Good God, Aunty! You said a couple of bottles
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“Yes, Aunty, two of the little blighters, Bonnie and Prince
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“So, Aunty, about the house
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'I was the team captain for all municipal schools in the area, aunty
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A day later, Julia received a parcel in the mail from her aunty and Monica was there to join her
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“You could recycle it and use it to wrap a present for your aunty,” Monica said
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“We can help you get clean Aunty Lilly” the other said
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"And we need him, Aunty
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"It’s a very long story but Eva Theresa’s aunty Erika was in an asylum; she was totally mad
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"Respect is earned, Aunty
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"Your aunty Stella sent me
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Tell me how you are faring so I can tell your aunty Stella
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Aunty Despina said her family is cursed and I believe it
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Before I could jab him in the ribs, Aunty Em said, “No, no, children
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Aunty Em ate nothing
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Once upon a time, I had two sisters to help me in the business, but they have passed on, and Aunty Em is alone
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“It’s a terrible story,” Aunty Em said
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Aunty Em was so nice
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“Wrong?” Aunty Em said, reaching up to undo the wrap around her head
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More rasping-the sound of tiny snakes, right above me, from … from about where Aunty Em’s head would be
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I stared at Aunty Em’s gnarled claws, and tried to fight the groggy trance the old woman had put me in
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mom, whom I call my Aunty Ruby, would invite Mommy and me to
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Will I be happy? Will I see my Aunty Julie? There is nothing wrong with wanting to
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thoughts soaring higher until just Aunty Mary’s face was in my mind and a
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memories of Aunty Mary, lurid and precious but I wasn’t able to keep her as the
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Matthew had grown a bit since they lived in Dublin as aunty Maureen had observed
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I have an aunty like there was none before that is until they turned well-heeled
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“Don’t you dare look at me like that Turner!” mason shouted but Terry turned around and walked out of his office then out of the school and wandered around the shops until it was time to go home to his Aunty Mary’s and her tribe of unruly kids
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Even Kiara aunty could not help but laugh at this naughty act of mine while Ajay uncle just shook his head
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We both steadied ourselves and said nothing and before Tani could ask further, Kiara aunty asked the DJ to play the music and pushed all us youngsters to the dance floor
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I saw Kusum aunty taking care of me but she was always cautious about leaving me and Mr
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“Khuri (aunty) told me about that
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“O, khuri (aunty), why did you trouble with these stuffs?” I said
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Aunty,” I wished her
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“Okay, aunty, I’ll go now
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“O! Aunty, please tell Shantanu to come in the school
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” “What about uncle and aunty?” Pranjit asked
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” “O, dear aunty, don’t ask me anything for God’s sake,” I thought when she left
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” “Okay, aunty,” I replied
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Gautami aunty encouraged me when I lost hope; she spelt me magic of love and faith at the time of my despair
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Gautami aunty opened
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Rupa aunty scared me a lot
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‘O, Sharma aunty, please come on in,’ I greeted her with a smile
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‘Please, aunty, be seated,’ I said
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me look over to it and seeing Aunty Rachel and Alex standing there
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Becky accepts her invitation by reaching out with open arms towards her new Aunty
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Unks and the kids’ new Aunty sincerely sip their stew during all the important details
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Look what Grand Aunty Linda found under the Christmas tree
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The year that father shaved his beard off, Douglas, Aunty Morag’s goat died in suspicious
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Ah, but you're my favourite Aunty
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“Shap would kill them dead,” Elfi admitted, “but you’re not on the Riaz ship, you’re here safe with your aunty
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his aunty in days gone by
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‘He should have come for a cold drink at least,’ Pammi aunty said and
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Pammi aunty had
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aunty said as she told her maid to get khus sharbat
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‘No, no,’ Pammi aunty said as she gloated over her possible role in my
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‘Here only, Dolly!’ Pammi aunty screamed hard to reach the upper floors of the
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‘She takes forever to have a bath and get ready,’ Pammi aunty said in mock
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aunty allowed me to live in this house with Ananya
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‘You are also doing computer course, tell that,’ Pammi aunty said and turned
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My mother and Pammi aunty had stopped talking the moment Dolly and I
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Aunty had a disappointed expression
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‘Radha,’ Shobha aunty said in a stern voice as she pointed to her banana leaf
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Ananya’s mother nodded as Shobha aunty started to discourse in Tamil
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Radha aunty had pitched Harish for the last two years
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aunty said and I felt she was moving way, way too fast
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‘What, Radha?’ Suruchi aunty said as she put a hand on Amma’s shoulder
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‘Really, what kind of colleague?’ Chitra aunty asked bossily
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visit to Ratna Stores before Chitra aunty
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‘Oh shit, Chitra aunty had to tell you the next morning,’ Ananya said, her hand
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Aunty opened the door
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Aunty answerd by placinga frying pan on the stove and poring oil in it
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‘Hello, aunty? You there?’ I said
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‘She is Swaran aunty, my masi,’ my mother said
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Swaran aunty was the senior-
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Ananya sat next to Swaran aunty and my
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‘But she is fair complexioned?’ Swaran aunty said, genuinely confused
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their gold sequined bags with Swaran aunty
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‘So, what is the surprise gift?’ my mother egged on Kamla aunty
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Aunty, please give us some
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‘But tell me one thing, you earn twenty-five thousand?’ Rajni aunty asked the
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Aunty, you have insulted them
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No paneer here,’ Kamla aunty said as we moved to the paneer-
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God bless aunty
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“Where’s aunty?” I asked trying to sound normal
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Mother fell to pieces, disappeared for weeks and I went to live with my aunty in Yorkshire for a spell
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“It was that or we all die, including Aunty
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“If mom’s a breeder, so is aunty
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“Damn, I hadn’t thought about Aunty
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"I'm not a show, Aunty, and no one is coming to stare at me, to criticize my dress, or count the cost of my luncheon
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Father's best books found their way there, Mother's easy chair, Jo's desk, Amy's finest sketches, and every day Meg brought her babies on a loving pilgrimage, to make sunshine for Aunty Beth
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Jesified, orchidised, polycimical jesuit! Aunty mine's writing Pa Kinch
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"Why, Aunty, I don't think there's ten
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"Why, Aunty, it cost us a power of work—weeks of it—hours and hours, every night, whilst you was all asleep
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"—and load up the cabin with rats and snakes and so on, for company for Jim; and then you kept Tom here so long with the butter in his hat that you come near spiling the whole business, because the men come before we was out of the cabin, and we had to rush, and they heard us and let drive at us, and I got my share, and we dodged out of the path and let them go by, and when the dogs come they warn't interested in us, but went for the most noise, and we got our canoe, and made for the raft, and was all safe, and Jim was a free man, and we done it all by ourselves, and WASN'T it bully, Aunty!"
