Hundreds of people write in to the paper's 'agony aunt' [=('US') 'advice columnist'] every week.
He has three 'aunts' and two uncles.
This is my 'Aunt' Mary.
(..) But there were several Bakarys in the neighbourhood so they called me Idriss... somehow it turned into Driss. Then what? Then out of nowhere my mother... I mean my aunt... she got pregnant twice. Then my uncle died. And then there were other guys, other children. I told you it's complicated. (..)2011 The Intouchables
(..) Is he your brother or not? Ok. I get it. All right. Let's go. My parents... they're not really my parents. They're my uncle and my aunt. They came to Senegal to get me when I was . They couldn't have children, so they went to see a brother who had a load of them. They took the elder. Me. (..)2011 The Intouchables