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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
I wonder how this will affect your cousins, his kids.
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Not much is my guess. We never had much contact and whatever contact we had was never initiated by them. Unless they needed your help (moving, electrics, etc). It has always been like that. Whenever the family got together or all the grandchildren got together they would keep to themselves and hardly interact with the rest of the family.
During the fire one of them lived literally around the corner. At my grandmother's funeral she claimed she didn't know about the fire. It made national news. There were firetrucks parked outside her bedroom window. About six months after the fire her, by then, ex boyfriend came by and apologized they didn't come and help after the fire. I think she knew what their father was planning to do.
Then we had the drama last year. They also didn't show up at my cousin's get together. One of the twins claimed they didn't know about it, I know that my cousin invited them all personally via text, email and Facebook message.
Last summer I ran into the oldest in the supermarket twice. While I greeted him he ignored me.
A couple of weeks ago one of the twins came by the store. Although I don't think she came to our town just to "spy" on us. But she did ask how the store was doing during the Corona crisis. I'm convinced that my answer of that we were doing okay might have influenced my uncle's decision to sign quickly. If I had told her we weren't doing well he might have tried to drag it out, making it costs us more money.
Both my sister and I have decided not to contact them anymore. I think the same goes for my aunt's daughters (not sure about her son). If they want any contact it'll have to come from them and when that happens I decide whether I want to or not.