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May 7, 2007   

My family is huge. HUGE. Ok, not huge in caps. My dad has three brothers and three sisters, and all of them have kids. Two of the families have two kids, two of the families have three kids, and three of the families have four kids, bringing the grand total to 22 kids, if I’ve done my count right.

Until last week, I had only seen three of them since 2001, and not frequently. Most of the extended family live in NY and Philly. We used to get together a lot, maybe every two months or so, for a big weekend of hanging out. As a kid, I really enjoyed it a lot, but I guess at some point, my dad and his brothers and sisters had various levels of falling out or simply falling out of touch. When I lived in Korea, I used to see two of the families a lot. Back then, only four of the siblings were married and one of them was in the US already, so all the available cousins played together a lot. There was a lot of affection between the cousins, with the older ones watching out for the younger ones.

Well, like I said, I don’t really know what happened, but no one seems to keep in touch anymore. My cousin E and I recently discussed how as we both were getting older, we wanted to reach out to family more.

Through a series of strange events, I was able to attend my little cousin’s wedding in NY last weekend. 🙂 I saw aunts, uncles, and cousins I hadn’t seen in something like 16 years, except the cousin who was getting married, whom I had seen a “recently” as nine years ago. I was so overwhelmed with gladness to see them that I immediately choked up and started sobbing like a baby, all the while grinning like a fool. 🙂

This is only about 1/4 to 1/3 of my family

And this weekend, I got in touch with another of my cousins! Yay! He lives out in Hawaii as he is stationed there with the Marines. He will apparently be leaving in October. The funny thing is, I was able to get in touch with him because I found another cousin’s MySpace page and found him linked on his. And the other cousin? I contacted him when I saw him logged on AIM because I thought he was yet another cousin of mine. It’s all very convoluted.

Anyway, here’s to a future full of cousins once more! I ::heart:: family.

2 Comments
Anonymous
May 7, 2007 at 7:32 am

A guy in my fraternity had 70+ *first* cousins. Each of his parents was one of ~10.

-Alan

ei-nyung
May 9, 2007 at 11:37 am

That’s crazy!

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