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My older brothers built the best tree forts. Not because
they did but because they were my older brothers.
Doesn’t every younger brother idolize their older brothers?
Everything they did was always one step beyond our
abilities; my younger brother and me. Accept dyeing.
Well, maybe they did that better than us, who knows?
We haven’t died so there’s no comparison, yet.
Our older brothers built two platforms high up
by shimmying separate sections of the trees,
at first attaching the boards with knots they learned in
Boy Scouts, then securing them later with spikes. I think
they did it just to string an Otis Elevator cable that they
got from my brothers future father in-law. I remember
the sound of the wind past my ears. It was like death.
11October2020
Markle~
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