Their mothers and sisters and aunts, wearing Islamic head scarves, wept and cried out.
Truman Capote loosely based his 1951 novella on his childhood with spinster aunts in the South.
Without siblings, only more distant cousins, a few uncles and aunts constituted the extended family.
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When I was in my room, surrounded by the smell of my aunts, I wept.
Bahjat's mother sobs on the phone as she asks after aunts, uncles and her grandchildren.
Coming back, I thought about my aunts and all the things that had never been spoken.
He lived here with his aunts from 1835 to 1837 while attending Harvard in nearby Cambridge.
Alex and I had milestones, we went to friends' weddings, became honorary aunts and uncles.
Three days after they arrived, he told my aunts it was time to go.
These two aunts brought me with them from Europe at the beginning of the Second World War.
Another time the door of his bedroom was ajar, and I saw him cornered by my two aunts.
This explains why new mothers feel ill-prepared: They can't get advice from their mothers, aunts, grandmothers and neighbors.
Others, like John and some of his cousins, have followed the example of their aunts in pursuing private endeavors.
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Convents, after all, were family affairs, with sisters, aunts and cousins all around.
You mention one of your aunts who runs a girls school and who, during the moth season, does not cook.
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James (Paul Terry), a young orphan, goes to live with a brace of loathsome aunts (Miriam Margolyes and Joanna Lumley).
Yet by the 1960s, rising prosperity and government-subsidized loans helped most of my numerous aunts and uncles own their residence.
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.
And uncles, aunts and cousins are all making their way to join the family and share in the holiday spirit.
Her aunts, uncles and two brothers who were on stage at the Staples Center arena reached over to console Paris.
Her mother was there and her extended family of aunts and uncles.
The children were taken in by two aunts who abused them even after their father's return from the war in March 1946.
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).
And one of his aunts, Maret Tsarnaev, who lives in Canada, said she believed he had become more religious in the past two years.
On Monday Jenny Baker told the BBC she contacted police on behalf of her mother, who once lived in the property with her aunts.
My aunts kept remarking how brave I was and how unusually long my eyelashes were, and teased me about my Cairene accent, my skin.
But as the conventional agony aunts sometimes advise - just taking a walk in the park with your dog can lead to friendships being made.
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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