Every family has one of those relatives. The one who is always overly excited to see you at holidays and goes above and beyond to show you their love? Yea, my family definitely has one of those – and it’s my great-aunt Joanie. Commonly known as the “kissing aunt”, I cannot walk into a Christmas, or Easter, or wedding gathering without receiving a giant kiss on the cheek. What makes it ten times more awkward is that she is 4 feet tall, and almost two feet shorter than me.
This past Thanksgiving, I was going out of my way to avoid receiving a kiss from her. Over the past 20 years, they have gotten less and less exciting and quite annoying. I really really hope she is not reading this right now. Yikes. Anyway! Despite her crazy habit of kissing each of my family members of the cheek, she makes some extremely delicious apple pie. We usually go over to her and my great-uncle’s house for Christmas (Because both of my grandparents have died…my great-aunt and uncle have carried on the tradition) and feast. We end up all sitting around the dinner table together, sharing stories and talking about school. This particular Christmas, though, the kissing aunt decided to give us gifts identical gifts – just another way to show her love for us. All the cousins were sitting in a line together, she counted to three, and we each opened our package. Inside were identical sweatshirts that said “____University” and inserted our respective last name. It ended up being quite the family gift, and all of us cousins got a kick out of it.
Even though sometimes her kisses get a little over the top, I still lover her. Without her, our family spirit would be a little dimmer.
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