Avenge

One tenth of marriages around the world are cousin marriages. In high school, I had a crush on a cousin — not Rachel, the first cousin of my mother who I called my aunt, but Juniper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Clement. Her mother was born Catherine Hawthorn Shanks, inheriting her middle name through her maternal line: she was daughter of Renata, daughter of Agnes, adopted daughter of Charles, father to Adam, father to Jesse, father to David, father to me.