Word: aunt
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...youngest was a 12-year-old boy. His family members, he said, were neighborhood leaders of the movement. When the crackdown began, the boy arrived home from school one day to find police surrounding his house. Three weeks later, the authorities broke in to discover his grandmother and aunt hanging side by side in a dual suicide. The boy and his mother were incarcerated at the kindergarten where she taught, but refused to renounce Falun Gong. So last December, when a labor-camp sentence seemed certain, his mother gave her son to other practitioners, kissed him goodbye and fled...
...Eating your great aunt Hilda?s famous potato salad at a family picnic We?re sure it?s just as tasty as everyone says it is, but if that salad sits outside for more than about eight minutes in midday heat, it could be a breeding ground for all sorts of bacteria...
...Then the Crown Prince left the room, only to come back, fatigue hat pulled low, eyes barely visible but walking steadily, to finish the job?as he would do several times. This time, he shot two uncles and his aunt, among others, and left the room again. Cousin Paras was in a corner of the billiards room, in front of a group of princesses. After a minute, Dipendra returned. He strode up to the five wounded or dead relatives, including the King, and fired at them again, at point-blank range, and then targeted his sister Shruti as she bent...
...This collection ranges from "essays," like the self-explanatory, "I Hate Dali," to tales like "Peculiar Celebrity," about the wife of a high-school teacher. The strongest of these involves a nine-year-old girl who discovers a device in her great-aunt's basement. The story the aunt tells of the contraption has such charm and imagination I daren't reveal it except to give you the title: "Personality Records." (Note the clever sideways reference to the "RPM" of the book's title...
When Aisha was five, Marie left her daughter in the care of her husband's aunt while she visited nearby Conakry for a few days. While she was away, a woman named Fatim appeared in the village. She told everyone that she was Marie's sister and settled in. Then, the day Marie was to return, Fatim roused Aisha, promising the child treats if she came along quietly. When the neighbors asked Aisha where she was going, she responded lightly, "I'm going to get some fried doughnuts...