My cousin once removed is a fairly well-respected novelist of romances, both in-series and on her own.
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~MadrugadaMy second cousin once removed wrote a Notable nonfiction book. This is, in fact, the only reason that I know what "removed" means.
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[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.My cousin once won a major beauty contest.
And that's how I ended up in the wardrobe. It Just Bugs Me!My cousin is an insanely smart Badass Bookworm who is kicking ass in college. Not a day goes by without my parents comparing him to me. Despite the fact that I live in Texas and he lives in California, so we barely see each other anyway.
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"Who wants to hear about good stuff when the bottom of the abyss of human failure that you know doesn't exist is so much greater?"-WraithMy aunt's husband's brother is David Shore, creator and initial writer of House. It would have been cooler if he was actually a blood relative, and if I had met him more than just once, which happened to be the summer before House launched.
Flora Segunda | World Made By Hand | Monster Blood Tattoo ^You should read these series.The business school at the University of Vermont is named after my great-uncle.
He founded the chain of Linens N' Things stores, then got rich by selling them.
And his son, my cousin, is a crazy architect who builds things with shipping containers.
Flora Segunda | World Made By Hand | Monster Blood Tattoo ^You should read these series.My grandpa knew the Admiral of the US navy.
He got a call at the cottage once, and because our island had a phone and the admiral didn't, he would get calls for his friend.
"Hello" "Hi, this is for (admiral's name)." "Who's on the line?" "The vice president."
My grandpa wanted to say "The vice president of what?"... but that isn't something that should be said.
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And that is just crazy. Apparently it was a landslide victory too.
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