I rarely share personal photos here but felt like sharing this one. I took this in 2010, a few months before mom’s passing. Today 3 out of 6 people in this photo are no longer with us, which makes us want to cherish the rest 3 even more. My mom’s side of family has always been very close knit and us 1st gen cousins are also close knit mostly because of our shared experiences growing up with each of these women at some point in our lives. At different points in life us cousins have spent months or sometimes years growing up in their houses in different cities, or in their younger years some of them at ours when we were small kids. (The second generation of all these cousins are really going to miss all that attachment and closeness of growing up together. Half of the 2nd gen are in the US and other half in India, and with time+distance, there is literally nothing binding the 2nd gen cousins together.)
