‘You’re looking beautiful, Aunty.’ The teenaged girl with braces had to repeat this line thrice, before I realised her compliment was directed at me. ‘Aunty?’ ‘Me?’ ‘Already?’ These were my thoughts when I was first called by the term every woman hates being addressed by, ‘Aunty‘. Then I told myself that being newly married probably gives one a leg up in the respect department, whether you like it or not, and consoled myself at being called ‘Aunty’. I have been […]
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