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Let's settle this

  • Yes, same person 110
  • No, different people 207
  • 2023-12-13
  • 317 votes
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Lots of confusion in the episode we just posted about this, so let's put it to a poll: Is the narrator's (Darby) mother the same person as "Aunt Lucy"?

Here is the sentence: "Uncle Kidd never moved away, but my mother, Aunt Lucy and Marisol's mother, Aunt Lindy, moved to Austin."

And please, please, don't tell us that in one specific part of Texas it's INCREDIBLY COMMON to refer to your own mother as AUNT something. There's only three weeks left in the year, I can't handle that type of thing right now.

Comments

EmilyBPM

The author appears to have employed the less-popular Oxnard comma in order to make 3 of the 4 individuals listed all but indistinguishable from one another: 1) the narrator’s mother, 2) Aunt Lucy, and 3) Marisol’s mother, Aunt Lindy.

EmilyBPM

Funny, but I always assumed this literary genre took its name from the narrative structure, not because it required the reader to make sense of seemingly inexplicable syntax.

EmilyBPM

Just saw some of the other posts about the ending … maybe this one won’t be solved as easily as I thought. Well done, I guess?