Dear Anita,

my cousins and aunts and uncles are bad to us – they are mean and put my mom and dad down.  they have jealousy of us.

it is weird because when I go to my cousins house, I have so much fun playing with her, but I also know they are not good people.

sometimes my mom is happy to go there, because their apartment is SO SO much more fun than our house (no one plays outside that much where i live).  she likes to go there because it reminds her of India and there is so many people outside and hustle and bustle – good energy she says

but other times when we come home, after being there, she says how much her sister (my aunt) puts her down and taunts her. taunting is when they put you down and make fun of you.  then i think they are bad people, even though i have fun with them.

maybe we shouldn’t talk to them that much then Anita.

—-now I am a little older so 8-12 or so…

i go to my other aunt’s house. she is fat and always cooks. she always talks about how her cooking is so good.  my mom told me thats all she knows how to do all day – just cook cook cook.

she wants me to eat her dish that she said she made so good, and i tried it and i didn’t like it.  i didn’t want to compliment her on it – all my other cousins did they said ‘oh wow this tastes so good, wow you are an amazing cook.”

I didn’t because they are bad people, so they don’t deserve that.  I told my mom later that I didn’t and she was glad, it seemed she was proud that I saw that my aunt is bad and she doesn’t need to be told her food is good! (when its bad anyway!))