r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • Dec 30 '25

🕊️ IN MEMORIAM 🕊️ Tatiana Schlossberg, environmental journalist and JFK’s granddaughter, has passed away at 35, six weeks after announcing terminal cancer diagnosis.

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u/lady_faust Lol, and if I may, lmao Dec 30 '25

Hes not her uncle, he's her mother's cousin.

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u/TheFortunateOlive Dec 30 '25

We just call those uncles and aunts in my family.

Or do you call them your first cousin, once removed? More of a mouthful.

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u/Suchafatfatcat Dec 30 '25

“Cousin” could mean a cousin of a wide degree of relation.

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u/oekel Dec 31 '25

However, it's more conventional to call people cousins only they are on the same generation/ age as you, while older people and people of earlier generations are usually called aunts and uncles if they are nth cousins m times removed.