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The Year We Stopped Being Just ‘Cousins’ – A 2020 Time Capsule my cousin sister 2020
We started a shared journal in June. A cheap spiral notebook we passed back and forth. She’d write a page about how online classes were making her feel dumb. I’d write underneath about how I was scared my parents might get sick. We never talked about those pages out loud. We didn’t have to. Did you have a cousin sister who was your 2020 rock
In those first few weeks, we were terrified and restless. The news was a horror movie playing on loop. So, we did what cousins do best: we created a parallel universe. The Year We Stopped Being Just ‘Cousins’ –
That notebook became our confessional. It holds the real story of 2020 for us: the anxiety, the hope, the stupid jokes, and the tear stains.