When I was in my room, surrounded by the smell of my aunts, I wept.
Coming back, I thought about my aunts and all the things that had never been spoken.
Three days after they arrived, he told my aunts it was time to go.
My aunts kept remarking how brave I was and how unusually long my eyelashes were, and teased me about my Cairene accent, my skin.
Not my only aunts, by any means, rather my husbandless aunts.
And as I go out to them, my aunts, silhouetted where they sit in the silver light of early dusk, I remember the women returning home at nightfall from the plots among the trees.
Another time the door of his bedroom was ajar, and I saw him cornered by my two aunts.
Yet by the 1960s, rising prosperity and government-subsidized loans helped most of my numerous aunts and uncles own their residence.
When I was a child the adults around me, my great-aunts and uncles, would always say things about what I might be when I grew up.
McBurney's wish-list sounds alarmingly like my mother's life--and my sister's, aunts' and coworkers'--and, to a lesser, I-don't-have-kids-yet degree, my own.
Without men of their own to occupy them these four aunts had always been frequent visitors to my father's house until he left to take up a series of appointments overseas and I followed in his slipstream to university.
My daughter is now going to the same school as did her mother and aunts and uncles (and has three cousins in the school as well).
Ken Miller left the state several times--"trying to get away from my own sexuality"--but eventually returned to his four siblings and 12 aunts and uncles.
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