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.
(..) friends of friends, folks around the office. And then you move into the people that you trust with your most intimate secrets. Your cousins, your aunts, your uncles, your brothers, your sisters, your parents. And finally your husband, your wife, your boyfriend or your girlfriend. (..)2009 Up in the Air