Day 19: VISIT

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Aunt Hildegarde Visits My Cousins

Aunt Hildegarde loves visiting relatives. Indeed, a few years ago, I visited her and her sisters and came away with some pretty strong preferences.

Last week a got a text from her saying she'd just met a celebrity and it changed all her preferences. (The celebrity part was unusual; the rest was not.) I braced myself for a visit, but it turns out she went to my cousins' instead--the three of them share a house, and apparently our dear aunt has been expressing all kinds of opinions to them, left, right, and center. So many, in fact, that I lost track of which ones told me which things in our group chat:

• We were talking about castles and she said she likes BALFOUR but not WINDSOR.
• Off to the liquor store since she suddenly prefers BEEFEATER to HENDRICK'S.
• I guess she likes DEEP BLUE and not WATSON now?
• She wants to visit DISTILLERIES but avoid WINERIES.
• I found her playing my DUKE ELLINGTON records and trying to sell my MILES DAVIS records on eBay.
• Now she's reading ELLERY QUEEN instead of STEPHEN KING.
• How can she even prefer FREIGHT over CARGO? What's the difference?
• Somehow she prefers HRADEC KRÁLOVÉ to PARDUBICE when it comes to Czech regions. What's that about?
• Out of nowhere she declared a preference for JAYWALKING over LITTERING.
• Help! She says she wants a KITTEN and won't accept a PUPPY.
• She just expressed a preference for STRYCHNINE over CYANIDE. Should I be worried?
• Apparently this Christmas we have to go WASSAILING instead of CAROLING.

I don't envy them. But...who did Aunt Hildegarde meet?

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Her sister Aunt Hortense prefers using an answer checker to never knowing if she's right. But that's not a quirk; that's just common sense.