[Lindsey]

Diana, I have felt my cousin and I growing apart lately and I really want to work for us to be as close as we were. We were my grandma's first two girls, after having 4 sons and then 2 grandsons, Brandi and I were born 6 months apart. Grandma just loved buying us matching clothes! We have always lived hours apart but as soon as we learned to write, we were writing each other letters constantly.

We grew apart in high school when she got into the party crowd and I was a goody-goody. Her mom passed away when we were both in our last year of high school, and it was very hard on me to see her at the funeral. She was obviously devastated and I felt I couldn't do anything for her because we weren't close anymore. When she was pregnant with her first daughter, we were 18, and we began talking again.

Basically we talked every single day until about last year... I feel that as soon as she starts dating someone new, I'm not important anymore. We email each other when she's at her job on Thursdays and Fridays but that's all I ever hear from her now.