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Aunt gets stuck

Aunt avoids risk

Aunt fears change

Aunt procrastinates

Aunt refuses to adapt

Aunt lives vicariously

Aunt wanders aimlessly

Aunt fixates on the past

Aunt forgoes opportunity

Aunt waits for the future

Aunt goes against the flow

Aunt forgets to take action

Aunt falls into an old habit

Aunt becomes lost in a dream

Aunt abandons an opportunity

Aunt plays the role of victim

Aunt takes a circuitous route

Aunt avoids high expectations

Aunt fails to overcome inertia

Aunt misses a rare opportunity

Aunt complicates a simple task

Aunt enjoys telling a sob story

Aunt laments the passage of time

Aunt pursues an impossible dream

Aunt refuses to admit the obvious

Aunt creates artificial boundaries

Aunt fails to perceive opportunity

Aunt sees two sides to everything

Aunt blames others for a bad habit

Aunt clings to a comforting delusion

Aunt proceeds with excessive caution

Aunt struggles to fix a trivial defect

Aunt fantasizes about a former lover

Aunt struggles to preserve a tradition

Aunt romanticizes a time from the past

Experiencing failure, Aunt feels jinxed

Aunt is obsessed with getting revenge

Aunt tries to understand the unknowable

Aunt experiences a period of debauchery

Aunt indulges an overactive imagination

Aunt refuses to shed an obsolete persona

Aunt falls in love with a self-conception

Aunt tries to prove something to others

Aunt is troubled by debilitating thoughts

Aunt can't stop thinking about object (X)

Achieving success, Aunt becomes complacent

Aunt wastes energy compensating for a phobia

Aunt is unable to make an important decision

Aunt squanders the opportunity of a lifetime

Aunt finds reasons to put off the inevitable

Aunt struggles to correct an imaginary defect

Aunt is content with the way things are going

Aunt spends a lot of time thinking about life

Lacking privacy, Aunt is unable to concentrate

Aunt suffers the symptoms of a serious illness

Afraid of change, Aunt continues a boring routine

Aunt gets involved in a task that seems endless

Aunt struggles to return to a former way of life

Aunt longs to be somewhere entirely different

Aunt continues a routine but has forgotten its purpose

Aunt focuses on a small detail concerning object (X)

Aunt seeks more information before making a commitment

Aunt feels guilt for something that happened a long time ago

Aunt struggles with the final detail of a complicated project

Aunt makes excuses for having a particular personal trait

Aunt refuses to settle for anything less than perfection

Imagining how others will react, Aunt decides not to change

Just as things take a turn for the better, Aunt has a setback

Aunt takes a difficult path even though there’s an easier route

Aunt decides certain objectives must be put off until later

Aunt falls asleep hoping things will be different in the morning

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