My Great Aunt Pat has always talked a lot and coming from the big Irish family that we are, it shouldn’t surprise you for me to say she was loud! The one thing Aunt Pat never lacked was personality. There are so many funny stories that I remember about my Aunt Pat.

For one the dramatic fit she threw when I was born. You see I was the last cousin to be born, and in Aunt Pat’s mind, the last chance for a namesake. My mother wanted to name me Margaret and call me Maggie. Aunt Pat wanted her to name me Patricia after her, and here I am Patricia. Aunt Pat always had a way of getting what she wanted.

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