they grow up and "lean out," she finds them less endearing. She is drawn to one of her nieces in particular: Seneca, a chubby little girl with a lisp, whom she likes to wrestle and cuddle. To bribe Seneca to allow her to roughhouse with her, Handler gives her little fun-size Snickers bars, which she also adores for their chunkiness. One evening, as they were playing their game, Seneca fell over, her sweatpants slipped down, and then Chelsea's sister-Seneca's mother-walked in. "Only I would get caught with a chocolate bar three inches from a child's rear." Only she doesn't say rear.
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