It's good to be right!

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My grandmother has two sisters. They each had children (my father's cousins). My father's cousin Barbara (my second cousin?) had two daughters that were around the same ages as me and my smurfbrother (my third cousins?). They lived in Arizona and I think I only saw them a couple of times. I know they came to Rhode Island once when I was pretty young, and then the summer after I graduated from high school I went with my grandparents to Arizona and hung out with them.

The one that was close to my age was really truly awesome when I was there in '93. We had a good time tooling around Tucson in her sweet, pristine powder blue Mustang that Ciocia Josie (her babciu/grandmother) gave to her (muy jealous), going to see Duran Duran in concert in Phoenix, and discussing the ins and outs of Nancy McKeon movies.

I spent the whole visit wondering if she was queer. Or would be. And I have wondered ever since. Since 1993! I always try to pry information out of my grandmother but all I ever got was that she'd been married, then divorced, and was living on the west coast.

She sent me a letter the other day when she saw our baby's birth announcement at Ciocia Josie's and I e-mailed her back asking for the goods and I was so incredibly, totally, fantastically correct.

I feel so vindicated!!

(It was the conversation about Jo Polniaczek that gave it away, I swear.)