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He was always worrying about me _ even when we were kids. If I scraped my knee or fell off my bike, he was the first one to help me up and make sure Mom got a Band-Aid._ __ remember._ I smile. __e was the quintessential big brother._ __e was. But that__ just it _ he__ not here to protect me anymore, Anna. And you don__ have to be, either. I know I let stuff get crazy. I didn__ mean to be like that _ it just kind of happened. You couldn__ have changed that. I _ it was something I had to go through myself._ My throat tightens. __ felt like I let him down,_ I say. __ll that stuff with smoking and Johan and Jake _ I didn__ take care of you. I couldn__ even keep that one simple promise._ __nna, my brother died. There__ no way you could protect me from that. It__ up to me, now. I let him down. I let me down.
Sarah Ockler Twenty Boy Summer
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He was always worrying about me _ even when we were kids. If I scraped my knee or fell off my bike, he was the first one to help me up and make sure Mom got a Band-Aid._ __ remember._ I smile. __e was the quintessential big brother._ __e was. But that__ just it _ he__ not here to protect me anymore, Anna. And you don__ have to be, either. I know I let stuff get crazy. I didn__ mean to be like that _ it just kind of happened. You couldn__ have changed that. I _ it was something I had to go through myself._ My throat tightens. __ felt like I let him down,_ I say. __ll that stuff with smoking and Johan and Jake _ I didn__ take care of you. I couldn__ even keep that one simple promise._ __nna, my brother died. There__ no way you could protect me from that. It__ up to me, now. I let him down. I let me down.

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