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海街 Diary volume 1, on page 8, this sentence appears inside a thought /
narration bubble from the lead female character:

> きのう奥さんの叔父さんて人から病院に電話あったの。

After juggling with Google Translate, I believe the character is saying that
yesterday the uncle's wife received a phone call from a man.

Then I am lost. Was the phone call made to a hospital? There is no previous
mention of the uncle's wife being in a hospital. Or was a person from the
hospital calling? If the latter then what's the に after 病院 for?
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translation manga
きのう奥さんの叔父さんて人から病院に電話あったの
> きのう奥さんの叔父さんて人から病院に電話あったの  
>  yesterday the uncle's wife received a phone call from a man.

奥さんの叔父さん is "the wife's uncle", not "the uncle's wife". The て (or って) is a
casual appositive particle (≂ という). 奥さんの叔父さんて人 literally means "a person who
is the wife's uncle", or "a man who calls himself the wife's uncle".

So the sentence is basically saying: "Yesterday, there was a phone call to the
hospital from the wife's uncle." / "I received a phone call at the hospital
from the wife's uncle."

The main character's older sister works at a hospital and is telling her on
the phone that she had received a phone call at the hospital from the wife's
uncle. The wife is their father's second wife.
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