My other beautiful Aunt/did everything I wanted to grow up to do/drove her own zippy car/fought toe to toe with my unapproachable father/had a song in her voice of a faraway island home/wore bangles that made music/laughed sometimes like the foolish ways of childhood were a surprise/knew the way of hard work/knew the way of devotion/had a look of disapproval that could rewrite history/made me marvel at her strong elegance/and spicy soul

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