We Met A Cousin for the First Time
@SIMPLYD (90722)
Philippines
July 10, 2018 2:52am CST
A day after my next sister arrived from Manila for a one week visit to our mother last July1 , we fetched from the airport , a cousin from Davao
When he arrived, he wants to make a video of my mother giving a greeting , not knowing that she can’t speak yet. It was the wish of his father, my mother’s only living sibling . He cannot travel anymore because of his diabetes so they sent his son to visit.
That evening we prepared foods that are of Bicol origin. He loves the boiled pili with a dipping of fish sauce with chops of Thai Chili, especially.
We toured him around the beautiful sights here in our province. We bought different types of pilinuts as our token for her parents and siblings.
We went to a restaurant that serves Bicol Express , meat with chopped chilis and coconut milk. We ordered him sili (spicy chili) ice cream that originated here. He tried level 1. He loves the spicy foods.
He only stayed overnight and the next day after touring him around, he flew back to Manila then to Davao.
That’s how we are with all our cousins. We don’t always see each other but once we meet, we are close to one another.
Are you close to your cousins? Are you in touch with any of them?
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
10 Jul 18
I'm sure your mother was very happy seeing even only your cousin in behalf of his father.
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
10 Jul 18
@SIMPLYD Good thing your mother still recognized your cousin. Do I remember right that your mother has some memory lapses at times?
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
10 Jul 18
@SIMPLYD Oh I see. So it's your 95 year old friend who's having a memory lapse 
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@Jessabuma (31700)
• Baguio, Philippines
10 Jul 18
Yes , I am close to my father's side cousins.. some of them are my friends in Facebook
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
10 Jul 18
@Jessabuma AT least you get to connect with them so if ever you see one another you are already close to one another.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
10 Jul 18
Actually, I am also closer to my father's side cousins. That's because they are always here on summers while growing up.
With those on mother side, I am only on FB with some that I personally know. But with this cousin, I am now at FB with him.
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@Jessabuma (31700)
• Baguio, Philippines
10 Jul 18
@SIMPLYD yes me too.. I have never meet all my cousinsbin mother side.. I only chatting them on messenger
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
13 Jul 18
On both sides? I suppose they are all far from where you are?
Yes, I am happy that from both sides we are in accord with all my cousins. Except for one brother of my late father who is a shrewd and selfish person. All of us relatives hates him.
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@just4him (307744)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
13 Jul 18
@SIMPLYD My father wasn't one to associate with anyone of his family outside my aunt, his sister. So, I never knew my cousins or aunts from that side, not until recently when I started meeting them, at least online, and only that through a cousin I met at a fitness center a few years ago. That chance meeting led me to my father's side of the family. My grandfather had 10 brothers and sisters. I don't know about my grandmother, but I'm sure her family was large as well, and prominent. They own a construction company here. Though, I don't know any of them. It was only on my mother's side I knew any of my cousins. My mother has four brothers and sisters. She was the middle of five.
@birjudanak (14320)
• India
11 Jul 18
yes, i am so close to relative and thus we believe in live in join family because of its most supporting thing. but it not possible to live all together as they work in different place and cities but when we meet we enjoy a lot and its a great fun.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
11 Jul 18
That is good to know that you are also close to cousins. Especially when you grew up with your cousins but become far from each other because of new endeavors in life, but still the closeness is there whenever you have the chance to have a get-together.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
12 Jul 18
@birjudanak Fun it will be indeed when relatives gather. 
And of course in those gatherings will be foods. 
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@birjudanak (14320)
• India
12 Jul 18
@SIMPLYD yes we have decided that in a year we will do get together twice in a year so we can fully enjoy with all. i have a big family so we are so many people and we close to each other so when we get an opportunity we not miss to do fun.
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@rsa101 (37969)
• Philippines
8 Oct 18
Seems like you toured him around your place. I am familiar with most the the pictures you posted. I hope your cousin did enjoy his stay there and he got what he wanted from your mom. I am pretty sure its really hard when growing old and you seem to be separated with your other siblings and you cannot visit them anymore because of distance and your health situation.
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@allen0187 (58444)
• Philippines
25 Jul 18
Sounds like a good time even though the circumstances were not ideal.
Yes,I'm close with my cousins and I get to spend time with them as well.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
25 Jul 18
Why did you say that the circumstances we not ideal?
I suppose you are close to them because they are near your place?
@changjiangzhibin89 (16548)
• China
10 Jul 18
Your cousin was accorded warm hospitality and he surely enjoyed every minute of it.How far is Davao away from you ?
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
11 Jul 18
@changjiangzhibin89 Yes. It is expensive to travel by plane and it's the only way to be able to come here in a short time. Travel time from Manila to here is only 45 minutes. While if you take the airconditioned bus it will take 10 hours.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16548)
• China
11 Jul 18
@SIMPLYD Sounds like it isn't convenient to go to there.I think this is why you meet each other for the first time.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
10 Jul 18
we have cousins near our home but we are not very close to them. it is because they have changed their religious affiliation except one who maintained her Roman Catholicism.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
11 Jul 18
@ridingbet Do you know that our sister next to me is a Born Again Christian and the rest of us are Roman Catholics. But we remained close to one another.
But I suppose it would be irritating if one will "proclaim their faith and belief". If that is done to me, I would tell them, "please respect my faith and belief so yours will, too. "
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
11 Jul 18
@SIMPLYD my cousin remained a Roman catholic while the rest of her family are already Born-Again. when we meet, my cousins start to 'proclaim their faith and belief' to us.
we are devout RC's, and we believe in Mama Mary, which the other cousins don't. that is why we some-sort-of drifted apart.
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@Hannihar (129625)
• Israel
7 Oct 18
@SIMPLYD
So, you never met him before this? Wow, that is very nice. I found out I had distant relatives on my father's side when I moved to Israel and since my Hebrew was very poor I could not talk to them but we communicated some how and it was nice. Now, that I can speak to them I do not know what happened to them.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
8 Oct 18
Yes, I have never ever seen him, because when we are having vacation there at my mother's parents which is a very far province, his father was still single. So, when we settled here in a much further province and wasn't able to take a vacation there anymore, we weren't able to meet his wife and their children, although my mother and youngest sister has seen them when they went there to visit.
@responsiveme (22926)
• India
11 Jul 18
Yes, close though we cannot meet as often as we like.
Your reception of your cousin was very thoughtful
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
11 Jul 18
@responsiveme Oh, that is nice. 
As for us , we have the messenger.
As for us , we have the messenger.@responsiveme (22926)
• India
11 Jul 18
@SIMPLYD we also have a WhatsApp cousin group
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@Letranknight2015 (51539)
• Philippines
10 Jul 18
This reminds me of that one time we met a cousin we haven't seen in decades.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
10 Jul 18
And you seem like close already during the first time meeting. Well, that is not a wonderment if the cousin is kind and amiable.
@wolfgirl569 (95982)
• Marion, Ohio
10 Jul 18
Some I am close with and others I barely know. But there is a lot of age differences in my cousins. I have cousins old enough compared to me that they seem more like aunts and uncles
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
10 Jul 18
But why not anymore. For us cousins, we maintain the closeness by being connected at Fb.
@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
10 Jul 18
Are you far from them? Not even one of your cousins from any side?
