Aunt Stories

My wife Ruth loves the stories on SH and suggested that I tell my story. It started a little over thirty years ago when I was nineteen. I was living away at University and only came home for the holidays. My brother and I had a favorite aunt, Aunt June was ten years older than Roger and I, and was a flirt and would tease us something rotten. My father hated her and called her a slut and that slapper and for many years had...

I had a message from my mother that my aunt Connie, my late uncles wife, had been in a car accident. She was on her way home from hospital and could I do whatever I could until her sister arrived. I left work immediately and drove over to her house and found her stood outside wrestling with a bag. I was amazed that the ambulance staff hadn't at least seen her indoors. Her keys were in her bag and as I rummaged to find the...

I grew up feeling that somehow I was different from my older brother and sister. There was a six year gap between them and me. Some how this feeling had made me a fairly angry child. Then at the age of three I lost my dad. I had an aunt June and uncle Harry that seemed to always be around. Aunt June was a lot younger than uncle Harry, by that I mean that I was now 19 years old, June was 35years old and Harry was 52 years...