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[niwatorimegami]

Someone with an unfamiliar name has friended me on facebook. Based on our mutual friends (my mom and dad) and her birthday and familiar faces in her friends list (my cousin Terry)I have deduced that it is probably my older aunt

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[peartreealley]

I ran into this once when my mother shipped me off across the country to spend a week with her sister and brother-in-law. She only referred to them as imo* and imo-bo that it wasn't until I was there that I realized I had no idea what their legal/given names were because my mother never, ever used them.

Awkward.

(*Imo, which is Korean for aunt, and when I was much, much younger, very confusing to me because for some reason all of mother's friends were called Imo to me and I wondered if maybe it was like the "Jenny" of Korean names.)

(It also probably helps to know that I wasn't raised by my Korean mother, so I think were a lot of cultural things that went over my head that I think she assumed I knew when I was younger >_>;;)

[peartreealley]

I don't know my Korean uncle's name either... I've just heard he's still in Korea, and also estranged. >_>;;

Really, the only reason I know he exists at all is because I have a family photo from when my mother was young and there's a boy in it, and my cousin once mentioned him, which is why I know what little I do.

[sigelphoenix]

I get that, too, where I either don't know an older relative's name, or at least I have to work at remembering it. I think you can be forgiven for not knowing, though!

[casaval]

This happens to me all the time, but that's because I have 80 hojillion relatives :X

[makoto_no_mori]

Oh, that made me laugh!! I wish I had such excuses for forgetting people's names.