Wolf: The close relatives, i.e. mother sister etc. don’t have an issur ervah as there is no yetzer hora for them. A cousin has the halacha like a regular girl, where (as I understood my rav) you can ask your neighbor for a cup of flour, you can ask your cousin how she is. Shmoozing with a cousin is like shmoozing with anyone else and has the same halachos.
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