My brother is having a birthday this weekend. He’s now officially in his late-20s. I got him a card and made him a present, so I sent it to my mom to give to him.

This is the first birthday of his that I’m missing. No matter where we have been in the world or in our lives we have always been together on his birthday – this is the first time we won’t be. Well, technically I did miss his first birthday because I wasn’t born yet, but I’ve heard he wasn’t much fun back then anyway, so I didn’t miss much…but I still feel yucky.

Edit:

from Angie.