Sister Cousin

Well today I had the opportunity to actually sit down and have a real visit with someone very special in my life. Our relationship has always been very important despite the infrequency of our time spent with one another since we were children. My beautiful cousin. After much talk about the importance of family and calmly reminiscing of days gone by and moments shared that no one would be able to validate other than her sibling and mine we finally headed our grocery aisle chat to an actual sit restaurant visit. It was delicious, so was the food.
I miss that woman. Funny, woman..I grew up with her as a girl. Isn't that what we are inside, just girls? Feels like it. It was so comfortable and easy. So natural and familiar and safe. She reminded me of my sister in that familiar way. Today although our conversation made us vividly aware of the gaps in family, just for one evening one of those gaps got much narrower and threads were tightened in the freying seams of family tapestry. I was so grateful for the time tonight.
I love you cous, you are beautiful and wonderful, gentle and sweet, real and family and most of all, FRIEND!