As a youngster in the Jensen house, you learned all of your relatives names in "twos." Very sing-songish. This was the way you connected the dots of who belongs to whom and eliminates, no, reduced, but did not prevent the risk of calling people by the wrong names.
For example: Harold and Dottie, Derald and June, Bob Bob and Nana, Mom and Dad, Bonnie and Clyde, Harold and Maude- well, you get the idea. The zinger came about with Nellie, Mae and Bud. That one was hard to register on a number of different levels to a small kid. So, it became Nell and Mae..... and Uncle Bud.
The family lists on both sides were fairly lengthy, so on trips to visit, we were often coached en route as a refresher so we didn't look like the family that arrived off the boat searching for long lost relatives.
I am still trying to figure out who Fin and Hattie were.??....
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