Aw-kwaaard
If you want to hear family secrets come out, come early to the Christmas feast. “Growing up we always went to my aunt and uncle’s house for Christmas Eve dinner. It was usually a full house of about 35 people or more, all family. One Christmas Eve we were all sitting down to dinner when my aunt L (whose house it was) got into an argument with her sister, aunt R. It escalated to the point where they were screaming at each other, and my sister, cousins, and I were being herded into the basement to ‘go play or something’.
“It ended when my other aunt (M) yelling that she was sick of the family drama and it was time to come clean. She announced that my oldest cousin was not the biological daughter of aunt L but was actually R’s child. Apparently when R got pregnant, she was too young and irresponsible to raise her, so L stepped in and took over. You could have heard a pin drop in that moment.” Things went from loud as heck to silent real quick.