Every child has favorite family members. One of mine was my Faster Anna.
Faster in Danish = father's sister. In Danish we articulate between the different sides of the family, until you get to great grand parents, when suddenly it doesn't matter anymore.
So Faster Anna was the sister of my father, like Moster Else was the sister of my mother.
Simple, no?
And fortunately Anna also escaped a name including Gud..my father was named Gudmand, his other sister was named Gudrund and a brother was named Gudmund, but my favorite aunt was just Anna. Plain and simple.
Faster Anna had an ample bosom, a slight but discernible mustache, the same combination of, in those days, very dark, almost black hair and blue eyes as my father, smoked cheroots and never ever talked bad about her peculiar siblings, some of whom were felons and murderers or just plain drunks.
She was a good person who adored her little brother, my father.
I will never really know what made her the person she was since I left the country and family and went to live abroad , but I shall always remember her as my favorite aunt, smiling gently as she smoked her cheroots.