But if I add up my cousin's spending, my target will be bubkes, and I'll be told to splurge now and starve tomorrow.

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When I was a little kid, I loved visiting my aunt, cousin and favorite uncle hey, he owned a toy store in their beautiful Brooklyn home, especially for Thanksgiving or some other big family gathering.

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The conversation turns to oyster farming and I talk about spending my early summers in Virginia with my aunt, uncle, and cousin without electricity by the Chesapeake Bay, with hand-drawn water from a well and harvesting oysters from a small inlet.

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Ms. ABIR (Palestinian Rapper): I'm Mahmoud's cousin and Tamer and Suhell are my best friends.

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So I have one conversation on e-mail with my grandfather and another with my cousin on SMS and all these things don't work the same way.

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"I was assaulted, my mother's house was burned to the ground and my cousin was killed, " he says.

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The Democrats and Republicans need to start working together, and, especially the latter (like my very famous cousin in the Pentagon, a conservative to whom I am grateful for my freedom) need to give in a little and start taxing the offshore-make products imported here, tax the wealthy, etc.

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It is paradise without a passport (if you are an American) and it calls my name on every cold winter's day walking around New York's distant archipelago cousin, where I live and work.

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