I'm an Old (53), and always felt a little weird because I had very little cousin interaction growing up. I mean, I'm from a small, mostly rural state; most peop

I'm an Old (53), and always felt a little weird because I had very little cousin interaction growing up. I mean, I'm from a small, mostly rural state; most people I knew had cousins out the wazoo -- but not me. I think the real reason is that both my parents were from two-child families, and they were also very much older than their younger siblings; my mom is 7 years older than her brother, and my father was a full decade older than his sister. Both my Aunt and my Uncle had families, but necessarily later. My aunt went first, and had a daughter about the age of my little sister -- 5 years after me -- and then another daughter a couple years later. However, they lived a couple towns over, and my father and his sister weren't especially close, so we didn't spend much time with them. My uncle and his wife didn't start their family until I was 17, so obviously there was zero childhood overlap there. I see and talk to those cousins more often than the two from my father's side, mostly because we have more in common, but it's still not very often.