I remember when I was 14 Aunt Maureen told me before I started High School that education was the single biggest waste of time in life. She made me swear not to tell anyone that she told me that. Mom just thought I was stupid.
She said that her love for reading, literature, and Shakespeare was all a ruse to keep the elders off her back as a youngster. She bragged to me that she would hold a book in front of her and pretend to read the whole thing in one sitting. She laughed and called everyone "suckers" for actually believing she was reading!
She told my sister to go into medicine because being a teacher was a "waste of time that could not be measured." Jennifer will never admit to this, because Aunt Maureen was right.
Aunt M. treated me like the son she never had. She always told me that she prayed everyday of her young life to be blessed with a son, but that she was cursed.
She hated IU.
My favorite Aunt always gave me money that my parents never knew about because she always wanted to be my favorite Aunt. She'd say, "Adam take this hundo, and if Patty or Judy calls you, tell them to go to hell!"
I hope she's laughing in heaven at this dribble. I know she's reading it.
Adam
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