Quote Originally Posted by gilmore View Post
Your cousins may have been wiser than you think.

Last winter I discovered something scandalous that had been covered up for over 90 years. I made the mistake of sharing it with a cousin whom I thought of as mature, level-headed and sensible. Evidently she was so shocked and/or hurt by the news that she hasn't spoken to me since. She won't return my repeated phone calls. She is one of my favorite relatives, and I deeply regret that we are estranged.
The person I was talking about has been dead for a couple of hundred years.