penny hung up the phone and dropped heavily into a chair , thinking : -well , it is a small world and full of surprises.-my great aunt winnie.-whod a thunk it ? -she hadnt even remembered she had an aunt winnie until she called.-now , though , she remembered that wilhelmina had always been described as queer.-of course back then queer hadnt had a sexual connotation as it does now.-back then it just meant a little out of the ordinary.-actually , back then , anyone who went all over the world in the company of other women and a lot of men would have been thought of as not ordinary .