That Aunt You Never Liked, 87, died January 14 at The Hearth at Windermere Senior Living Community in Fishers. Or was it Hamilton Trace? It's hard to remember; you really haven't cared until it came up just now. With her constant stream of snide comments directed at your mother, her decades of Christmas gifts to you based around a theme that interested you briefly when you were seven, her apparent inability to quite remember your name correctly, and the fetid, nauseating casseroles she used to bring to family gatherings, That Aunt You Never Liked filled your childhood with fond memories . . . well, with vivid memories, at least. Now you will never again hear her raspy, cigarette-choked voice calling you into the kitchen--at a volume 25 decibels higher than necessary--or cackling at her own off-color jokes at your mother's expense. Never more will you scrub her salmon-pink lipstick from coffee cups or from your own cheek. Your extensive collection of that thing that interested you for a while when you were seven will grow no further. Funeral services for That Aunt You Never Liked will be at Randall & Roberts Allisonville Road Chapel on January 18. With your parents at their winter house in Florida and your sister tied up with work and the kids in Oregon, you're the only member of the immediate family who's close by. Don't you think you should go to the funeral--you know, to represent the family? Oh, I know you had your differences with That Aunt You Never Liked, but it's the right and decent thing to do.
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