The Day I Outsmarted My Scary Older Brother

Sibling relationships are often complicated

Ellen Eastwood
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Published in
5 min readAug 30, 2022

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Three young boys looking up at a camera, one is smiling while the others look scared.
Image by amyelizabethquinn from Pixabay

I’m the youngest in my family. My brother, whom we’ll call Mark, was five years older.

When you’re a kid, that’s a lifetime. We had absolutely nothing in common.

Siblings are notorious for fighting, but Mark went beyond most stereotypes. Future psychiatric…

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Ellen Eastwood
ILLUMINATION

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