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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.

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Sara Sheridan
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 7
Novelist
Writer
Edinburgh
Scotland
Ideas
Necessarily
Chime
Live
Offers
Chimes
Without
Parents
Aunts
Trying
Parent
Demonstrate
Love
Opportunity
Aunt
People
Kids
Copies
Also
Carbon
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