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There is a couple who has been very close to our family for years. He was actually our pastor at one time. She was/is so close to my Mom that they call each other sisters. She is also listed as executor of my Mom's estate (though Mom and I have discussed this and Mom agrees it should be changed as Aunt N is over 75 now). They have been at all our special occasions: Christmas, b-days, graduation, and everything inbetween. They even drove 6 hours to be there the morning after my daughter was born. We call them Aunt and Uncle but they act and are treated like family and no-one would even know the difference. Uncle D has had Alzheimers and it has been as hard for our family as their own children I think. Their grown children aren't around much and one child rarely communicates with them, he's even been known to disappear with no phone number or address for months on end. We give them the close family that they need and they have done the same. They've in a sense EARNED the title of Aunt and Uncle.
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