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Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.
Sara Sheridan
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Sara Sheridan
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 7
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