my little brother is taller than me, but it’s still his birthday today! william is sixteen years old, which means that this is the first of those big milestone birthdays. eighteen and twenty-one aren’t far beyond. and the boy has already founded a successful dj business and is the administrator of a popular gaming internet community. congratulations, will. even though i had a tendency to smack you around a little and throw tantrums at your birthday parties when we were younger, i love you, and i promise not to cry at your party this year!
yes, it’s true. william and i didn’t always get along as children. i know it’s hard to believe. but we had our moments. we invented a tickling game called hot dog dough and a hide-and-seek game that we used to play in the parking lot while we waited for our mom to run errands. i loved that game, and for the record, i think we should play it more frequently.
my favorite two weeks of the year are when william and i are at camp together. i get really excited about his arrival and i force people to guess which camper is my brother and i get a lot of “the one who looks like you, only taller and not a girl?” i never realized how much we look alike until people saw us together at camp and could hardly tell us apart. i love following him around all session and borrowing stuff from him and lending him stuff. one summer he offered to beat up a boy who made me cry. this summer he was an l.i.t., which involved milestones like his solo overnight and his twenty-four hour experience. on that night, he was still hanging out in the trading post when i got cq’d at staff curfew. outrageous! and i love it when other staff continue to rave about how considerate and polite and funny he is even after he’s gone home. yeah, he’s my brother.
quote of the day: “your love is better than ice cream, better than anything else that i’ve tried.” – sarah mclachlan
love always, em locke
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