"We're like bookends, then," Eleanor noted, with a faint smile. "Mine's the beginning of July. But thanks god not another August one, this month is too full of birthdays already."

Granted, Graham was also a July! So that one was looking pretty stuffed, too!

She followed Charlie's gaze around the room with a small bit of pride and relief that things seemed to be going well before asking, "Do you have a lot of Aunties?" and trying to remember the term Kamala had used to describe them in her culture, too. And thinking about her relationship with her own aunts, it was endlessly fascinating to her how different familial dynamics worked...

...while highlighting for her just how mess up hers actually were.