How many cousins is a lot of cousins?
With Thanksgiving today, everyone is visiting family. Cousins and Aunts and Uncles and Niblings and Piblings and Grandparents all crowd at a table or two and eat and talk and whatever.
I have a big family that only keeps growing, my mom has 8 siblings, I have 17 maternal first cousins and who knows how many second cousins. But I used to think my family was fairly average, the people I grew up around had families of the same and much larger magnitude. Slowly I have realized that my family is huge, especially when I read that the average (British) person has 5 first cousins, 28 second cousins, and 175 third cousins. (I’m not British, but my point still stands)
The thing is, compared to my friends, my family is small. It makes me wonder what “a lot” of cousins would be here.