This is a picture of me and my 3 siblings. Far left is my younger brother Nick. He also writes some amazing music. I'm 2nd. 3rd is my older brother Harold, and 4th is the oldest sister Jeanne. This is the first time we've all been together in over 20 years. We had a good time catching up.
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That’s awesome y’all got together after so long. What was your favorite memory from the time there? Also, what’s kept you guys apart for 20 years?
We were talking about our surgeries, and I mentioned how I only ever had a vasectomy. One of my brothers said they took one of my nuts away, and I followed up with "turns out the doctor was a squirrel. I didn't realize it until after the procedure and then I saw his tail and he ran away". It was a good laugh, and there were lots of good times had yesterday :)
I moved away from the family (my siblings and my uncle, our parents died young in the 90s) in 2000 to live with my girlfriend, and I came back maybe once or twice (once in 2009 or 2010 to pick up my younger brother's piano he gave me) but my sister wasn't there at the time(s) I went. It's more like 14-15 years for my older brother, 20 for my older sister, and maybe 7+ since I've seen my younger brother?
We've all been through our share of hardships, and I'm happy we could get together again. I have a very strong family network (my father had like 10 or 11 siblings? and almost all of them have families that now have families too), although I mostly kept to myself outside of a one or two aunts and uncles, and some cousins.
The main reason we've been apart for so long is distance. I grew up in Brooklyn NY, moved to Jersey, and now I live in Pennsylvania. My younger brother lives in California, while my oldest siblings are still in parts of Brooklyn.
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