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After my aunt died, we arranged for her house to be cleared .
We used to spend the weekends at my aunt's cottage in the country.
For instance, a quarter of the working parents reported using their children's aunts, and 10 per cent, their children's uncles when they were at work.
She projects, from the start, an alternative lesson, and at the end she pronounces her pride in being like her aunt.
In the cases of uncles and aunts, childlessness may often have been a factor.
No uncle niece or aunt-nephew marriage was recorded.
The neighbors of ' aunt ' are ' uncle ', 'relative ' and ' relation'.
Shortly after being hired, he constructed a thatched house of his own down the street from an aunt.
Furthermore, other kin (parents, aunts and uncles, siblings, cousins, grandchildren, and nieces and nephews) of diverse ages are frequently cited as significant network members.
Relationships with nieces or nephews tend to be infrequent and perfunctory unless an aunt or uncle has been a surrogate parent.
The aunt reciprocates her niece's call for complicity.
Consider the following example, in which an aunt is requesting her three-year-old nephew to talk.
We may be generally reticent as to our uncles and aunts, and may drop even our brothers and sisters in our ordinary conversation.
He immediately wakes in horror, realising that he has dreamed the tale of the count's aunt, and encountered, meanwhile, the voice belonging to the portrait.
By contrast, there were a few aunts and grandmothers who played, usually temporarily, key caring roles, but to whom the child never became closely attached.
Some aunts who were notable characters also played similarly powerful roles in their families.
Certainly it was easiest when the grandmother or aunt lived in the same house, but there were also striking instances when they lived close by.
