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One day, Maria comes up to Crystal with a distraught look on her face. She tells Crystal that she lost 50 dollars somewhere in the terminal.<\/p>\n
Like a firefighter called to a five-alarm inferno, Crystal is racing around the terminal asking every person if they\u2019ve found Maria\u2019s money. She\u2019s checking behind every counter, under every row of lounge seats and down every jet bridge she can.<\/p>\n
After searching through “high water,” the money didn’t turn up. Crystal finally lent the 20 dollars to Maria herself, and at this moment the two felt closer than friends — they felt like family.<\/p>\n
“Shut the door!”<\/h3>\n
<\/p>\n Talking about their lives back home in \u201cG.I.,\u201d suddenly small coincidences started popping up like wildflowers along the highway. They knew some of the same people, went to the same schools and finally, on Facebook, Maria noticed someone calling Crystal cousin, which turned out to be Maria\u2019s uncle Aubrey.<\/p>\n Maria had a hunch, but wanted to be sure and test Crystal about her cousin on Facebook. She decided that if she called her uncle Aubrey by his nickname, \u201cSquirt\u201d, then she must be family.<\/p>\n \u201cWithout me saying anything, she [Crystal] comes up to me and says, \u2018Girl, Squirt\u2019s your uncle?\u2019,\u201d says Maria. \u201cSo I showed her a picture of my father as another test, and she says, \u2018That\u2019s my cousin Lester!\u2019 And we both screamed, ‘Shut the door!’\u201d<\/p>\n Then the flood gates opened. The two \u201chomegirls\u201d turned out to be more than just close friends with the same laugh, they were in fact cousins.<\/p>\n After speaking with their mothers, Crystal and Maria found out that they used to play together as young children at \u201cMama Bert\u2019s\u201d house, which is Crystal\u2019s grandmother and Maria\u2019s great aunt Alberta.<\/p>\n Back then, Maria was known as \u201cPuncho\u201d because of her rambunctious horse play. But those days of playing in Mama Bert\u2019s backyard and eating her delicious baked goods ended after Maria\u2019s mother was divorced.<\/p>\n The split also separated Crystal from her grandfather Mr. Looney, who is also Crystal\u2019s great uncle. But his name and the history of that name is what brings \u201cThe Cousins\u201d, Crystal and Maria, closer together.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nThe Looney Family Tree
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