There are cousins and uncles and friends in battleground states all across the country.
Alex and I had milestones, we went to friends' weddings, became honorary aunts and uncles.
Yet by the 1960s, rising prosperity and government-subsidized loans helped most of my numerous aunts and uncles own their residence.
And uncles, aunts and cousins are all making their way to join the family and share in the holiday spirit.
Her mother was there and her extended family of aunts and uncles.
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.
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.
He started playing seriously when he was eight years old, following a family tradition that goes back three generations - his father and uncles all played for England.
That's not the situation for the majority of orphanage children around the world, who don't have caring grandparents or aunts and uncles a short walk or bike ride away.
Mary Ann Lanza, who was married to Adam's now-deceased grandfather, said the Lanzas "were a lovely family, " who were close with cousins, aunts and uncles who lived across New England.
Similarly, when I heard about the apparent racially motivated killing spree in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last week, it angered me because I could see my brothers and uncles in the slain victims.
An extended family of aunts and uncles and cousins who you could turn to at the drop of the hat, if you ever got caught doing something improper on the street.
So I will only tell you the really astonishing things that happened, and you may leave the book about quite safely, for no aunts and uncles either are likely to write 'How true!'
For some of the students I saw at university in China, their tuition was being paid for by a number of people in the family, not just the parents, including grandparents, aunts and uncles, and even well-off cousins.
Tanned little boys darted past me on bicycles, wearing mesh baseball caps propped high on their heads, in mimicry of the fathers and uncles who crowded around workbenches, bent over vehicles, their belts buckled off center to avoid scratching the paint.
This is their achievement as well, so give it up for your parents and your grandparents, your cousins and your uncles and your aunties. (Applause.) This is their day, too.
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The deaths of 20 first-graders and six adults compel all Americans as sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, uncles and aunts, to consult their moral compasses.
Go to GottaRegister.com. (Applause.) If you don't know how to vote -- maybe you're 17, turning 18, first time -- go to GottaVote.com. (Applause.) If you're already registered and you're already going to be voting, then you've got to grab your friends, you've got to grab your neighbors, you've got to grab your cousins, your aunts and your uncles -- (applause) -- you've got to corner your -- and your grandparents. (Laughter.) You've got to talk to your co-workers.
"It's something I learned from my father and my uncles, " she says.
Beeld, an Afrikaans language newspaper, has reported the Pistorius family owns 55 weapons -- between his father, grandfather and two uncles -- not counting Oscar's six guns.
Ian Lavery, who worked in coal pits in Ashington, a town in northeast England, watched his father, two brothers and several uncles all lose their jobs as miners.
He joined a plethora of family members who served, including my grandfather and great-grandfather, a bunch of uncles and cousins and my father-in-law.
"'The Godfather' was a raw example of his experience at weddings, with family and he just took his experiences and viewed those characters with the familiar aspects that he had known from his uncles and his family, " she told CNN.
By the time Jay was born, the family was already an American success story and, with its uncles, nephews, nieces and cousins, quite vast.
And he proudly invokes his legendary uncles, John and Robert, to help pry open wallets in circles where the Kennedy name still sizzles.
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Without siblings, only more distant cousins, a few uncles and aunts constituted the extended family.
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Bahjat's mother sobs on the phone as she asks after aunts, uncles and her grandchildren.
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