“I don’t feel like it’s my responsibility to give it up just because she didn’t finish school the first time," a recent college grad wrote in a Reddit post Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

Dear Eric: After some years of being out of touch, I reconnected with a once-close cousin. When she recently visited my area, I met up with her and her granddaughter, “Mia”. My cousin told me of the ...

Dear Annie: I have a cousin with whom I’ve had a cherished lifelong friendship. We meet several times a year halfway between our homes and sometimes at each other’s homes with our families. We often ...