Oddities

So yesterday I got an e-mail from my aunt informing me that my cousin Charlie is going to have a baby. Well, not him, his fiancee/wife. You get the idea. It just seems really weird, considering I've known him since I was four. He lived in Florida, and often visited my grandparents and aunts when I went down to visit them, so as a consequence, we spent many summers together with our cousins Joey and Jonothan, and his brother Mikey. My most vivid Charlie memory is the fact that he is allergic to chocolate (talk about the curse). One time, my aunt, Maerie (her room-mate), Charlie and I were going to visit my aunt's cabin in South Carolina. On the way there, we stopped at an ice-cream shop. Charlie, in spite of the afore-mentioned allergy, decided to get this triple fudge brownie sundae. The rest of the weekend, he was throwing up like crazy. Oh man, but he was miserable. And now he's going to be a father. It's one thing when people you knew in college are having babies, but it's something entirely different when it's people you've known since early childhood. God, but I feel old. At any rate, Charlie, congratulations and good luck. You'll need it.