Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book centers around Caridad, a woman of Chinese, Spanish and Philippine ancestry, and her search for her true roots, obscured by family secrets for over forty years. Her voice begins and ends the novel, but in between, her story is told through those of her mother Thelma, her aunt Emma and her cousin Ligaya. "After all," says Caridad, "do we not all belong in each other's stories...
...Aunt Emma has been through poverty, war, widowhood, hunger and impossible choices. She struggles with what to tell Caridad, saying, "When you take the cloth in your hand and pull at this loose thread, there is a danger more stitches will come loose. Telling the truth is like that, it is much like telling a lie-- one leads to another. And soon all the stitches unravel, and the hem falls free because you pulled at just one loose thread. How much can I tell her? When do I stop...
...sometimes sporting only her signature sarong--with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope; in Los Angeles. Though she starred in more than 50 movies, Lamour won over audiences--particularly G.I.s during World War II--with the seven road films she made with Crosby and Hope, surviving the jungle, a malevolent aunt and the wisecracking duo at her side who vied relentlessly for her affections...
What they get instead is a surrogate maiden aunt. Her name is Elaine. She is a clerk in a maternity boutique. What she knows about birthing babies has been gleaned from how-to books, about life from the dubious aphorisms of inspirational literature. But she is played by Mary Kay Place with a wondrous blend of primness and spunk. The girls may hobble her ankles to prevent escape, but they can't hobble a simple, can-do spirit convinced that their reform must be built on a foundation of nourishing casseroles...
Jaspers said he was unable to show his aunt his dorm on her visit last week, but otherwise has not been terribly inconvenienced by the restrictions...