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My cousin Steve Pate and how to find him on the front page

When I first started writing stories about the exploits of my US cousins Steve Pate, I had no idea how much trouble…I mean how many interesting stories they would generate.

I didn’t think people, other than my mother an aunts, would read them.

Lo and behold, they are very popular stories.

People send me emails and ask “How can I find more ‘My cousin’ stories”?

When I tell them to search on Steve Pate that doesn’t work since I write a lot of stories with Stephen Pate in the byline.

To help, I created a category that hangs off the front page called “My cousin Steve Pate”. That’s where you can find them.

I hung them off humor because all my cousins are fun loving and sometimes funny guys.

Don’t you think cousin Steve dating Nicolette Sheridan is laughing all the way and not always to the bank.

My cousin Steve Pate from Chicago is visiting Jay Leno today so that would keep him in good trim with jokes and one-liners. I bet Jay is just bursting with jokes since he went off the air.

As to your questions, the answer is obviously “Yes, Steve Pate is my cousin. And my cousin. And my other cousin.”

We had different mothers so they tried to tell us apart by spelling my name “ph” and the other Steve’s with a “v”.

And they all live in the States.

Well, not true, there are three Stephen Pates in Halifax who are related to me but spell their last names differently, as in “Pottie” but that is another story altogether.

I am on a word count diet these days, so that’s all from here.

PS – if you know another Steve Pate, send me the dope and I’ll check with my aunts if we are related. If we are, we’ll write him up as well. We’re just one big happy Acadian, Cajun, American and Canadian family.