Dear little brother,

I love you. Thank you for being my first and greatest best friend. Thank you for supporting me through every down, and celebrating with me during every up. Thanks for picking me up when I was sad or upset, and reminding me of my worth when I needed it. Thank you for keeping the spirit of everyday life alive with your humor, your kindness, and the ability you have to make moments together special. I don’t think you grasp how important you are to me, or how much I care for you – and you may never. The comprehension it would take to put into quantification the connection we hold or the love we share as siblings is an impossible task.

Thank you for fighting with me, and making up with me. Thank you for being around to pester me, and to remind me to not take the world or myself too seriously. Thank you for growing up with me, and growing together with me – with too many incredible memories to account for, I consider myself extremely blessed to have a built in partner to experience them with. Never take for granted the part you have played (and will continue to play) in turning me into the person I am today. Without my personal pep squad, supporter, and best friend all rolled into one conveniently available human, I would have never made it through what it has taken to get this point in my life thus far. I need you and I truly could not imagine a life for myself that doesn’t include you in it.

Thanks for being the wind beneath my wings (as cheesy as that cliché metaphor sounds) when I needed it, and for always having my best interests at heart. I know that I can trust you with anything and everything, and that we would do whatever needed to be done for one another if it was what was needed. I love spending time with you, and although we are getting harder, and our schedules busier by the hour, I will never not have time for you. Thanks for always sticking up for me, and for being my protector. I feel safe when I have you around me, and I consider myself lucky to have a person like that in my life. Know that I will love you forever and regardless of who comes into and goes out of our lives, we always have each other. You are the greatest, most creative, intelligent, kind, and talented person I have ever had the privilege of knowing – never change. Thanks for being you, you’re the greatest little brother anyone could ever ask for and I truly don’t know how I got to be so lucky.

Love you so much.

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