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It's fairly normal. I had a crush on a female cousin for the longest time. Relatives are kind of like friends in a way. You don't have some of the social barriers like you have with just meeting strangers. It allows you to be more open with them, so it is natural to have "feelings" when you have an emotional connection. This, however, does not help when it comes to the social conventions against it. You would never be able to marry, and there would always be a stigma against it. You would also not dare have children due to possible genetic problems. That is why there are laws against this now. It didn't used to be taboo to do this, but science proved that mating with a close relative led to a much higher incidence of genetic problems.
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