For Eva, explaining her family to people had always been complicated, what with the two sets of parents, the smudged generations—grandparents who were parents, aunts who were sisters—plus who was dead, who was alive. After she heard a song by Willie Nelson called “I’m My Own Grandpa,” Eva wrote a song called “I’m My Own Aunt”: My grandma and my grandpa Took me as their kid So my dad and their two daughters All became my sibs Since my dad was now my brother His daughter’d be my niece, So as my father’s sister, I’m an aunt to me! Chorus: It seems impossible, People say I can’t But I’m my own
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