kitty-bandit
replied to your post “Sudden realization that my little half-sister is graduating from…”

Wow. That’s some craziness. It’s weird when you don’t see someone for a long time and they grow up while you’re gone. I have that issue w/ 2 of my nephews right now. My sister has been avoiding my parents for years now, so I never get to see them.

I had that happen with my cousins too. Last time I saw my cousins had been when I was like 10. Flew to visit those relatives two winters ago, 13 years after I had last visited, and my two older cousins were like, married. And there were like 4 new cousins I didn’t even know existed. >.> Only the two older ones remembered me at all, the last time I had seen the other one I remembered, he was an infant, so there were just these 5 kids who suddenly had a cousin they didn’t know existed pop out of nowhere to visit. (This sounds confusing, so… 7 cousins total, two older than me, one was an infant when I had visited last so didn’t remember me, and 4 new ones born since I had last visited. I’m also the only female ‘cousin’, at least on that side of the family.)

They decided they liked me when they realized I play video games. XD