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In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.

In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.
– J Sheridan Le Fanu

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