My mother is a big one for drawing concentric circles in her relationships. Confused? Well, what I mean is, to her, an aunt's-motherinlaw's-sister (AMiLS) has the same value as a relative as say an uncle's-fatherinlaw's-brother (UFiLB), because they are equidistant in relationship terms. No matter that the AMiLS is an angel in human form, ever ready to drop everything to come running to help my mother when she needs it and that the UFilB is verily an avatara of Mephistopheles!
She confuses equidistance for equivalence....
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