My family moved from the East
Coast to the West Coast when I was small.
They brought us to warmer weather, beautiful mountains and a location
where we could be swimming in the ocean one day and throwing snowballs the very
next.
What they didn’t bring with
them were my cousins. We grew up 3,000
miles away. Over the next many decades
we got together at various family functions and vacations we took.
I was four years old when we
came to California. It amazes me how the
connection between my cousins and I pick up within seconds of our being
together. There have been times when 5
to 7 years have gone by with NO communications, and yet when we see each other
it is like we met for coffee the day before.
With all the challenges
thrown our way. With all the people who
come in and out of our life, I count on the fact that when there is a wedding,
graduation or even a funeral it will be my cousins that I feel most comfortable
with. Besides our siblings, they are our
first friends.
If you have cousins you have
lost contact with, consider calling or writing to them. Hopefully like me it will feel as if you have
recaptured a little something of your childhood.
Do you agree?
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