Wasted-Effort

Peggy Merle Aunt Peggy Big Peggy Peggy These are the names I and my family used to refer to my mother's niece, her sister Lorena's youngest child, my first cousin who passed yesterday. "Peggy Merle" because she shared those two names with my youngest sister, who was named after her something I always thought strange, two sisters each with a daughter of the same name but my mother always adored her niece so it's not all that strange. "Aunt Peggy" because that's what we, my sister Peggy and I, were brought up to call her though of course she wasn't our Aunt but because she was a good deal older it was more respectful I suppose to call her that than just by her first name. When I was older however and discovered that she was not in fact my Aunt I, never liking to call people by titles and names that they were not, stopped calling her "Aunt Peggy" and forever after referred to her as... "Big Peggy" because she was the elder of my sister "Little Peggy". Whenever I would talk to my