I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.
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Not all gays respond to the same stuff. Would Alexander the Great have loved Auntie Mame?
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Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.
“Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the … Read More
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
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There was a time when I could walk down the street, Hollywood Boulevard or Beverly Drive, and somebody would come up to you and they would say, “Excuse me,” and you’d barely hear them, and you’d turn around and you’d say, “Yeah, how you doing?” and they’d say, “I’m really sorry to bother you, but my aunt is a big fan of yours, and would you mind terribly if you’d just sign this paper,” or whatever it is, and you’re happy to do that, and the people are pretty nice about it.
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Twenty years after the Andy Griffith Show when Andy did Matlock, he hired me for four episodes. I told him I wanted to develop an Aunt Bea type role for Matlock, but he was against it. I did appear on other popular TV shows, like Family Affair, My Three Sons, Barnaby Jones and Little House on the Prairie.
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Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother’s, but not every night.
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Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That’s changed. It is now entering the mainstream and being taken seriously.
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[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. ‘You see,’ she declared. ‘I am Tom Mallow’s aunt.’ Catherine’s first instinct was to burst out laughing. She wondered why there was something slightly absurd about aunts; perhaps it was because one thought of them as dear, comfortable creatures, somehow lacking in dignity and prestige.
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That’s enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation.
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I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.
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I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother’s aunt, who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson and a few others.
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