Summer

I had two older siblings, but it was me and my little brother who were inseparable.

We would spend hours hunting through rubbish dumps looking for spare parts for the space ship that we were building. He collected ancient Mad magazines, which we read over and over until the pages were worn thin by our laughter. We devised our own cartoons and had art competitions. (He drew better, but mine were funnier.)

He taught me how to shoot and gave me my first and only gun. I inspired him (through my own poorly done efforts) to become an oil-painter, which is what he grew up to become. In fact, I have his first oil painting hanging in my house -- it's the first thing you see when you walk in the door.

Even in our early twenties, we were uber-close. His then-wife became my best friend, and he tolerated my then-husband.

But summer doesn't last forever.

After I had kids, we drifted apart.

And even though he lives just twenty minutes down the freeway from me, I hardly ever see him. In fact, it's been exactly a year since I last saw him.

Yesterday, I called him to try and get together for Thanksgiving, but he was in Hawaii.

Hawaii?

I guess it's always summer somewhere.

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Wow, I totally relate. I too grew up reading ancient Mad magazines with my brother.

He lives close by and I saw him last weekend for the first time in almost a year.
 
Good for you girl. I had my brother out to meet his new niece this year and it had been 22 years since we had last seen each other.

You can get it back. It sometimes just happens. Ya know?
 
Feels odd at times, how families can drift apart.

I'm more close to my younger sister than I am any of my other sisters. We see each other every day, Monday through Friday, she works at the same company that I do, just in a different department.

We usually have lunch with each other daily throughout the work week but I do know that if it weren't for the fact that we work together that we wouldn't see each other nearly as often.
 
That's sweet. It's fun having siblings, isn't it? Although, sometimes I used to wish I was an only child and wonder if I would have been spoiled or not. If he's only 20 minutes away, you are going to have to get together in 2008--at least once.
 

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