My brother, Jaewoo Lee, I believe has always been someone that I live with at all time. He has never been just a brother to me even from when I was a young girl. He was more like a guardian, who sometimes talked to me as if we were friends but often treated me as if he was my father.
The love I got from him even the time I have no memory of was far different from other sisters in the world. First, I do have to say I was born for his demand. He has asked for a sibling which changed my parents' thought of not having any child. Having a gap of four years between us, he, according to anyone who knew us, always took a very good care of me. I am afraid I do not remember any of those but all adults often talk of my brother of being the best brother they had seen. I now think, they wouldn't have said this if he was ten or older. He at that time, I believe was under ten years old.
According to all the adults, he has always been near me. In or out of home. They always saw him carrying my bag when I went to kindergarten. They always saw him pushing a swing for me. They always saw him walking behind me or talking to me as if I was his own. I do see being near him every picture of me since I was a baby, but never knew how he cared of me this greatly.
Even one day, with great jealousy he had over me, one of friend, two years older than me, told me how my brother bought me candy bars whenever we were to see her. The candy bar was given to make sure I do not hang out with her, but only with him. Of course as a baby, I figure I soon forgot the meaning of those candy bars. She told me how he yelled at me and was rude to her whenever I was around her. According to her, the quote he said to me was, "hey why are you hanging out with her! I gave you a candy bar and you promised!" Now since the day I first heard this I cannot resist smiling how he showed his own way of keeping me around him.
Of course gradually we had a gap, with four years difference between us, but it was when I came back from Australia that our bond was getting stronger. I admit we never disliked each other, but we often fought when I was attending primary school. Often we would try getting opposite's attention by throwing pens or erasers. But I knew and he knew that we were a sibling.
The love between as a brother and a sister grew stronger and stronger and my Sophomore year and Junior year, I must say, without him I would have not be the way I was. Talking to him almost everyday or two, he was the only shelter I had at that time. With his kindness and love but also his strict manners and scold, I was able to be more strong but never lonely.
Each day whenever I hear the story of his love towards me, I smile and promise to be just the same as I grow up. Jaewoo Lee, the best brother I know in the world, is my brother who just turned twenty five. He is not that tall, genetically, yet with big and sparkly eyes, cute, big nose, and a great smile with a dimple on his right cheek.
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