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Originally Posted by willravel
Please read my posts carefully before correcting them. I used the word "like" in comparing half siblings with cousins. The word "like" was used as a simile, or a word to make a comparison between two unlike things. The comparison was not direct. If I say, "She is like a rose", I am not saying that she grew from a seed pod.
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I did read your post carefully.
There was nothing in your post to lead anyone to believe that you were speaking in a figurative sense. You weren't.
You meant close relative, like a half brother or half sister. First cousins are not
that close. In fact, they are exactly twice as "far" away from you, genetically speaking, as your half-brother or half-sister.
Don't kid yourself, kid: reading your post carefully doesn't reveal that you were using a simile, and reading my post after reading yours, and then your response quoted above, reveals that you know you were corrected.