So I finally got a hold of my cousin-- on Wednesday evening-- and we finally talked for about an hour. It appears that my aunt has been rewriting history (not a new thing for her) and telling him all sorts of weird things.After explaining some of it from my side of things-- and clearing up the notion my cousin had of my sister and I telling my dad we wanted his mother out of the family (didn't happen)-- my cousin finally felt much better about everything and is coming to my wedding. His brother, however, is not. His brother hasn't even rsvp'd. Or returned my or my sister's phone calls to him. My first cousin thinks his brother is unhappy with one of us (my dad, sister, or me-- he's not sure). All I have to say is, if my aunt thinks for ONE SECOND that this is NOT going to come back at her, she's on crack. My dad is ready to tell her to take a hike if she's interfering with my cousin's relationship with us. And he's the only one of us still talking to her...So there it is! My one cousin is coming to the wedding. His stepsister is coming, too (but that was already set ages ago). His little brother is not (his loss). And my aunt will die pretty much alone, with only her sons and stepdaughter (maybe) by her side. If she doesn't piss them off, too, in the next 10 years or so.Sad. But her own making.
"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky." -- Ranier Maria Rilke
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