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I've got at least one elder cousin, and her daughter, and several of Mom's cousins on the dry side; my Aunt is buried in the Gleed Cemetary (as is, strangely enough, Willie Nelson's mother). Mom's cousins and their offspring are scattered all over Eastern Washington, but I don't know many of them. Hard enough to keep up with my this-side-of-the-mountain relatives: Mom was the eighth of twelve kids, Dad the eldest of six, and I have cousins the way other people have casual acquaintences. Add that to my maternal grandmother's four brothers and three sisters, and her husband's three sisters and two brothers, and chicken math looks simple.
(All I have to do to make it stop raining is come in, take off my work coat, clean my hands, and sit down. I think I'm wearing gloves next go-around).