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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Niece is thirty, younger nieces and nephews are 7-11. I have a thirteen year old.  It is just wierd.  I think my sister wants to feel young.  [/quote]

At that age, I used to call several relatives "Aunt Firstname" or "Uncle Firstname" even tho they weren't real aunts or uncles. They all were my seniors by several decades and I felt weird addressing them just by their first name, and there wasn't an appropriate honorific in my culture to define our real blood tie (e.g. you wouldn't call someone "Cousin" or "Cousin Firstname"). So, even if I knew that they weren't technically aunts and uncles, that's what I called them. They were fine with it and so were my parents.

Only around 14-15 did I start feeling comfortable addressing these relatives by first name only, and there's one of them I refer to this day as "Uncle S.", maybe because I can count on one hand the times I've interacted with him in my life and I somehow feel that a honorific is more appropriate than just plain S.[/quote]

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