Cousins

So my friend Jodi had posted on facebook a thing about having great cousins and how they are your first friends and then forever friends. Well my first friend was Gubby, not a cousin. But that said I do have some good cousins. So Brenda, who is my double second cousin, and I had a conversation about cousins. My list of cousins that I count is very small, while hers is rather large. From that side of the family I count three first cousins by blood, two first cousins by adoption, two first cousins once removed, and seven double second cousins. There are more than that obviously, but those are the ones who matter to me. Brenda has a whole slug of first cousins who would be my double second cousins, but I didn't know most of them. I count the ones I know. I count the ones that matter. Well come to find out Brenda has some that she doesn't count either. What would be interesting is if we discount the same ones or not. We may have to have another conversation some day about the ones who aren't counted for reasons other than I don't know them.