How we were introduced

This was when we were in our youth. I was 17 years old, and she was a few months older than me. One of my relatives passed away, so I went there. Suddenly, for some reason, she was also one of our relatives, so I had to go to her house. My family was with me, so we went to her house.We went to her house because I was considered a child at that time. I was 17 years old. I mean, in the words of the elders, it is not customary in our family to go and sit with the elders. When such occasions came, I would be with their children, their daughters and their brothers. My brothers were not well at that time, but I was sitting with their daughters.She was joking with me because, in the relationship, she was also one of my two closest cousins. So we met for the first time. I told her who I was. She s...