I've never understood the sisters who gush that their brothers are their best friends and they have been inseparable their whole life and blah blah blah. No...my brother gave me the entire big brother experience; from beating me up to holding me down to making fun of me to ignoring me.... to teaching me how to read to protecting me to surprising me with kindness at the most random of moments to being my hero when I needed one the most. He was not my inseparable best friend growing up... he was what he needed to be, my big brother.
Lee and I went through something that apart from being brother and sister, bonds us together forever. I have often thought of my own sadness at the absence of my father at my wedding. Selfishly, I have never stopped to think about the sadness my brother must feel with the date of his wedding growing closer every day, and our dad so untouchably far away. Dad would be so proud of you Lee, and he would be so happy and joyous for this moment in your life to have come. He will be there, watching us both, sharing in this experience with us, in ways we can not understand.
I love you so much Lee and this couldn't happen to a better a person.
"Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh' ? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
Matthew 19:4-6
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