“He’s your cousin.” Karen’s mother made the word sound positively scandalous.
“It’s not as if he’s my first cousin or something,” Karen countered tiredly. She’d already had this conversation with a sister, two cousins, and her mother’s aunt Betty. “To find a common ancestor — and only one of them, I might add – you have to go back up two family splits to a great-grandmother who married three times. Gerry down the street is more related to me than that.”
“But…” Her mother made a distressed noise. “You’re not supposed to… supposed to…”
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OK, her mother’s assumptions are pretty much wrong on every front. Except for the “Billy”. Seriously, “Aunt Billy?”
One of my friends – who now has a child – has a sister called Bill. I honestly don’t know what Bill’s given name is; she’s been introduced to me as Bill…. so, Aunt Bill. 😀 But that aside, I have a distant cousin named Billy, and he, ++ (70’s, 80’s) Zonker from Doonsbury, is what I was thinking of here.
Rules are made to be broken? Especially if you’re the Aunt? I *really* want to eavesdrop on Karen’s conversations with the other Aunts. Saint Gretel I’m pretty sure is new (Saint?!?); is Anatolia?
Saint is a nickname; Gretel is Too Good To Be Real. I THINK Anatolia is new.