Quarter 2: Blog 4

Eliza,
Why did you and your brother, Aaron, grow so far apart? I understand that there are six years between you and Aaron, but that does not mean that you two can not be close to each other. You used to play with him all the time; he would "drive" you to crazy places like Neptune or the bottom of the ocean all the while fighting off evil aliens and giant land squids with you and he taught you how to fight like a ninja against evil villains. When you had bad dreams, you would go to Aaron for comfort in the middle of the night, not your parents as most kids would have. He was your hero. Then, one day at recess when you were in kindergarten, you saw two bullies beating up your invincible brother. Instead of helping him in one of the ways you thought up, you refused to believe it was Aaron and you ran away from him because "there's no way she'd be able to help this boy who can't possibly be Aaron. Aaron, who knows all the secret moves of the ninja and Jedi. Aaron, who saves Eliza from bad dreams. Aaron, who would never allow himself to be reduced to this" (30). Your gilded image of him was destroyed by those boys, but that does not mean that you had to stop idolizing him. He is still your brother, he still loves you, and he still wants to be your role model. Why would you let that slip away?