Re: My littlebrother/

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> This year I send my brother a Christmas card. He is 4 years

younger

> than me, and in the past 9 years we haven´t had almost any contact

> at all. I experienced him as very aggressive and didn´t want to be

> around him. And he didn´t contact me either.

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> Anyway, after my Christmas card he wrote me a long e-mail,

> explaining to me that he had been an alcoholic, but was now sober,

> getting treatment and going to AA-meetings. And a couple of days

> later he called me and we had a long talk. He is still very bitter

> at our mom and dad, and I can understand that. I was in the same

> position myself, not long ago.

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> Then I had a talk with my sister. I told her that our brother

Jakob

> had phoned me. And we talked about him and our childhood. That was

> when she told me this story that made me feel so miserable. When

> Jabob was 13 and I had moved away from home, he and mom had a

> terrible fight. Dad was at work, and Hanna who was 11 witnessed

the

> whole thing. They fought all day, mom got meaner and meaner.

Finally

> she said: I wish you were dead Jakob, because I don´t love you,

and

> I never has, never! Jakob found mom´s pills, she was mentally ill

at

> the time, and took a lot of them. Then he went upstairs with the

> dog´s leash, into the master bedroom, took a chair and tied the

> leash to one of the beams in the cealing. He put the leash round

his

> neck and kicked the chair away.

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> My sister found him, she doesn´t remember if she helped him down

or

> if he had managed to get down himself, but his neck was all red.

And

> he just cried and cried. Mom didn´t care, so Hanna had to call an

> ambulance and she also went along to the hospital.

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> This story makes me feel so much pain. I will do the Work on this.

> For now it was just enough to tell you about it.

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> Thank you,

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