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“You knohat I’ve been thinking?” Aunt Myrtle speaks at last

“I can’t even begin to iood-huhs too

Of all theand gregarious, and I as Even compared to my parents and my brother, I am introverted and quiet, happy to observe rather than participate

My great aunt certainly isn’t shy about voicing her thoughts, and I’ the wheel as I ht-hand turn onto our road, drive the five hundred feet to the driveway, and slowly ascend up it

“I think it’s time you left the nest”

Is she iht to move out of my parents’ house?

“I did leave the nest, redom for several months

“Eh” She makes a sound in her throat “You knohat Iwith that little brother of yours You’re a man now”

“Where do you suggest I go? I haven’t lived on cao live in the dore”

“I’ in the dorood comes of it”

“What are you even talking about?” I put the car into park and help her unbuckle her seat belt before exiting the vehicle and going around to the passenger side so I can help her out There’s a little folding step stool beneath her feet, and I reround to make this step down easier

She is a tiny little thing, but she has big opinions

“All I’ is you don’t want to sleep on a mattress that’s as thin as a piece of toast and that hundreds of people have banged on” She gives her head a shake “Do you knohen the last time they replaced those e”

Great Aunt Myrtle is one of the few feeneration who actually attended university It wasn’t coo to school back in the day, but she and randfather run his corporation

Grand stories about their sorority days, cotillions, and all the young bucks that vied for their attention; two s in the fifties were a hot commodity

“The last thing I want to do is live in the dorms I’m an old man compared to the people who live there”