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Thank you, nephew's subject.

I don't think we're really cousins.

Dear Stephen Shirley, in high school, I liked a girl and she liked me. We talked in the phone

and hung out together all the time, and her mom and my mom were close to. So she always was at

my house or I was at hers. By the time we graduated from high school, we were even closer,

and I told her that I wanted her to be more than my friend.

She's always been really close to her mom and tells her everything, so she told her mom that she and I were dating.

Her mom told her that I was her cousin. When she told me we were related, I felt strange because we had kissed a few times. We never questioned it, though.

We stopped dating and remained very close cousins. We still did everything together and told

each other everything. And by the time we were in our mid-20s, we had both had a bunch of bad

relationships and always ended up back together. I realized that I loved my

quote unquote cousin and she's a perfect woman for me, so I finally asked my mom if we were really

related. My mom said we're related somewhere down the line, but there is no way for us to find out

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