Cousins

My cousins lived in Elizabeth, PA when we were young and we'd see them from time to time when we were small. I'd never want them to leave, so I would steal their shoes and hide them. It really made mum mad, though. When we were teens we started hanging out more often, and staying over at each other's houses more often until my cousin started dating a girl who went to high school with me. He ended up spending more and more time at my house. I'd like to think because he wanted to see me, but I think it was because he wanted to see her. Of course, they married years later and have to children and (I think) a happy marriage.

When we were little we'd ride home from my Aunt & Uncle's house and we'd fall asleep to the lulling of the tires against the asphalt of rte 51, before being half carried into the house and deposited into our bunk beds upstairs. I remember one time being dead tired in the car and being asleep, but as soon as I was home in bed, in my pjs, I could not fall asleep. In my eye's mind I imagined ice skating around South Park and remember nothing else until I woke up the next morning.