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This is a really sore memory for me.. I don’t even recall which birthday it was, but I remember I was living back on Lemon Circle so it was definitely in my teens. I was given a birthday gift by my brother Robert. It was a fuzzy poster of a knight on a dragon that he had colored in with markers. It was an odd sort of gift (to his credit, I’m very difficult to buy for) …but that wasn’t really important. It was the first birthday gift he had ever given me (or any of my brothers, for that matter, that I can recall) and I treated it with the same disdain that I had for anyone who showed me any kind of family attention back then. I made some sort of confused expression and my lack of enthusiasm for the gift was quite apparent. A little bit later, in an attempt to salvage the gift, I began to fill in his coloring job with some shading and whatnot. He saw me doing this, and to this day I don’t know how he felt about it.. I don’t think he ever did give me another gift.

Anyhow… If you ever read this, Robert, I’m sorry for my thoughtlessness.

- Pete