She sighed with relief as she heard her cousin leave the room.
"And then my cousin went off in the other ship, and left me to take care of things here."
The cousin left the apartment, the police said, and when he returned, found the boy in a courtyard.
Last Tuesday, he and two young cousins left their grandmother's apartment to go to the store.
My cousin left me a letter, asking me to look after him.
A distant cousin of mine died a short time ago and left me a tiny estate out there - oh, nothing much.
Did that cousin of hers in Texarkana finally die and leave her something?
Or that my cousin deliberately helped himself to the poisoned end and left the rest to me?
The five cousins left their identification as Gaza Palestinians at home.
My cousin, whose real name was Oscar, left a self-printed memoir of some hundred pages.