My Brother: A Short Story Of A Good Brother

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Your brother should always be important to you, no matter his disabilities. In the story, Brother’s brother Doodle was disabled and Brother did not like that. There are many reasons why Brother would be considered not a “good brother” but one of the main reasons he is not a good brother is because he wishes he did not have Doodle as his brother, mostly because Doodle is disabled.
Brother was not a good brother to Doodle because he wishes he didn’t have him as a brother. He wished this so much he even planned to kill him once. His brother was born with disabilities and Brother was okay with this at first but once he realized Doodle was not all there he plotted to kill him one time by strangling him with a pillow. He began to plot to kill him

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