On Sept. 7, 1986, a beautiful Sunday afternoon, I attended a Mets-Padres doubleheader at Shea Stadium with my parents and my uncle.
My grandfather had served in World War II, and so had my great-uncle.
Devastating news kept coming at us, beginning with the death of my friend's uncle.
My dad fought in the South Pacific and his brother, my uncle, died in a plane over Germany.
Not the floating Buicks that my elderly aunt and uncle drove in the 1980s.
But it's huge news for people like my uncle who just suffered from a stroke.
That familial link running through my great uncle, the now sadly deceased Christopher Watson.
We had a young uncle who played less carefully than my father.
But my incredible Uncle George took the fantasy one step further.
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My uncle just lost his former wife to cancer.
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Then he spoke great words of wisdom as he sat there on that chair: 'To eat these things, ' said my uncle, 'you must exercise great care.
That day, my cousin Rajesh, the youngest son of my middle uncle, downed his breakfast at breakneck speed and dashed outside.
My uncle told me once that more people have brains than guts.
My uncle amazingly survived the tidal wave during his usual morning walk.
But the point of living abroad is seeking new experiences, so I was actually really excited to head to Central World with my uncle, aunt and 12-year-old female cousin.
My parents and my aunt and uncle worked double shifts in a boot factory for several years.
My uncle gave me my Tibor Everglades on my wedding day in 2001.
In 1999, I went to Toyama, Japan, to briefly train with my uncle Yasushi Naoe, who was a kaiseki chef for over 50 years.
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