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librarygeekMaking this a post here so I can edit and add more as needed.
I attended the funeral of my first cousin, died suddenly, the night after his only child's baby shower, and with a thereby very pregnant wife being the one to find him and realize the CPAP machine sounded wrong. First cousin, twice over, by relationship and birth order, because he was born first and I next. His widow, at the funeral, when another relative was trying to introduce us because I hadn't made it to their wedding in March, burst out in tears with, "I know who you are, you're his twin cousin!" His wife spoke, one of his younger brothers spoke, and I spoke at the funeral.
I have never lost a contemporary before, and that sucked. Grandparents, Mom, aunt and uncle, have all died in just the mutual relations between J and I, but not someone only 15 months older than I.
I attended the funeral of my first cousin, died suddenly, the night after his only child's baby shower, and with a thereby very pregnant wife being the one to find him and realize the CPAP machine sounded wrong. First cousin, twice over, by relationship and birth order, because he was born first and I next. His widow, at the funeral, when another relative was trying to introduce us because I hadn't made it to their wedding in March, burst out in tears with, "I know who you are, you're his twin cousin!" His wife spoke, one of his younger brothers spoke, and I spoke at the funeral.
I have never lost a contemporary before, and that sucked. Grandparents, Mom, aunt and uncle, have all died in just the mutual relations between J and I, but not someone only 15 months older than I.
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