My parents and my aunt and uncle worked double shifts in a boot factory for several years.

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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.

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The conversation turns to oyster farming and I talk about spending my early summers in Virginia with my aunt, uncle, and cousin without electricity by the Chesapeake Bay, with hand-drawn water from a well and harvesting oysters from a small inlet.

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Not the floating Buicks that my elderly aunt and uncle drove in the 1980s.

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If my aunt and uncle wanted to spend money or have a dinner party, the girls were consulted.

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While we lived in England, my aunt and uncle would come out to visit and take trips with us through Europe.

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My aunt and uncle moved out of the duplex.

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When I was a youngster, my parents, siblings and I would attend Aunt Mary and Uncle Don's Christmas Eve party.

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My guide Claudine Buehler, whose husband, father, uncle, aunt and grandfather all work or worked in the watchmaking business, explained that the buildings were laid out this way in the early 19th Century to maximize the amount of sunlight that could flood into the first-floor workshop windows.

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