He himself was obscurely comforted that his distant great aunt had managed to survive Fall, and he would attempt to do the same.
On the other hand Chhotofufu, Tishna's distant aunt Mayna, spans less in the novel but touches more deeply.
Banks had a distant aunt who kept having "funny turns," as his mother called them, but as she was mentally flimsy to begin with, no one was much surprised.
She finally convinces her parents to let her spend a summer with a distant aunt in Calcutta.
The Senites reminded him of a distant aunt who used to talk to him like a child, even when he wasn't one.
The Ogre does realise Johnny is not to be seen, and Caspar claims he has run away to a distant aunt.
Autotune ain't an elephant in a room, more an unloved vase (wedding gift from distant aunt 'n' uncle).
Inheritance from a distant aunt?
Orphaned at age five, he was raised in Boston by a cold and distant aunt who repeatedly mocked him as a "sissy."
He had taken the money quietly, thanking her as politely as he would have thanked a distant aunt.