I agree. Everyone you meet has an amazing story, if you can just get them to tell it.
My aunt is a very nice woman, with great endurance (having been married to my uncle, who is a Noodle, for 45 years), but not the dazzler Maureen O'Hara was ;-).
I LOVE the stories that come out on FR about fathers and mothers and miscellaneous relatives. These are REAL good people, not just characters in books. They influenced people and are remembered with love for the kindnesses and small events that made up their lives. And when we remember them, too, then we help their memories last past them.
Glad you still have yours. Grandmother was raised among 16 siblings and those were the “aunts” whose funerals I spent my childhood attending. Aunt Eva was so gentle she could put her hand in a goldfish tank and the fish would swim onto it to be raised momentarily out of the water. Her apartment was filled with canaries.