Updated. See below.

Larry Sinclair, the man who claims he took drugs and had sex with Sen. Barack Obama, was arrested at the National Press Club last Wednesday, and the ordeal reminded Sinclair’s distant cousin of the troubled young man Sinclair was when growing up in northern Minnesota. In a blog posting titled, "My Cousin Larry," Shelly recounts some rather disturbing details of family reunions and family-filtered gossip

Update: Shelly is now telling readers that the family account is fake. "By the way: my story about Larry, like Larry’s story about Obama, is fake and completely false." Funny though? The readers will decide:

It’s true now that I know more about my own cousin from online blogs than what my own mother would tell me, but that’s what happens when you have a really, really, really black sheep of the family. Ironic then that Larry later accuses this Senator who happens to be black of having some type of gay affair with him. It could be true that Larry’s gay, because I never knew of him having a girlfriend. At the time, I assumed it was just because he was ugly and dirty, but it could have been because he was gay. Also, I always assumed Larry was on drugs since he was a kid because he always had that rushed, surprised look on his face; until his Dad ran off on his mom. Then Larry’s eyes got squinty and mean. That’s when he really got into hard drugs. Later on, Larry moved out east, then to Las Vegas, and we totally forgot about him, until now.

On whether she thinks her cousin could have had oral sex with Obama (or anyone for that matter?):

"Do I believe my cousin Larry could have a gay drugged affair with some guy? Sure, if the guy was blind and had no sense of smell, was falling down drunk, lacking in all curiosity, and didn’t need any sort of intelligent conversation."