aunt
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Related: ‘I have no children’: My aunt gave me $50,000 for a down payment.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
And there was also additional praise for William's aunt, the Princess Royal Anne, who has supported the MND community for many years.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
The children were initially looked after by Nelly and Ernst, but were placed in an orphanage when it became clear that their aunt and uncle couldn’t afford their care.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
They had the cadence of a catechism, and evolved into a set of rules recited like a prayer by Yamel, her brother and their aunt around the kitchen table.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
“Maybe we type it up and print a clean copy? My aunt has a printer. I bet we can use it.”
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
Two of his aunts sweetly send him cash for his piggy bank when he loses a tooth or for Halloween.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
She was raised in a huge extended family — she has 32 aunts and uncles — and remembers a house that was almost constantly full.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
It did not make sense to me that only children had aunts, uncles, and cousins.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
Studies suggest inheritances from aunts and uncles are rare, accounting for 6% of all inheritances, compared with 75% from parents and 15% from grandparents.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
My aunts rarely mentioned her, and when they did, it was always with sadness or, in Hadel’s case, anger.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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