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“Incest, the act of having sexual relations with family members or close relatives”
Anything that fits inside 3rd cousin is a close relative. Don’t know how you were under the impression cousins aren’t also incest. Look at a family tree. Your first cousin is your parent’s sibling’s child. If your parent was a twin, you’d be cousins but also half siblings. So yeah, it’s weird.

why couldnt they just have been childhood friends so it isn’t incest like that could have worked over cousins?