Theodore Michael Winter: A Short Story

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When his mother, Sarah, told me that I was going to be an aunt I didn’t think much would change about my family. It was June and I was almost 13 at the time and was standing in the kitchen when my brother and sister-in-law gave me a bag. Inside the bag was a mug that said Aunt Brylie on one side of it. Being 12, it took me a minute to figure out what exactly that meant. I didn’t even notice that a less than a year later things were different. Over the last almost two years I was more respected in the family, my brother overcame a drug addiction, and

A few months later, Theodore Michael Winter was born on December 29, 2014. When I held him for the first time, he was just few days old and I had never held a baby before. Then I realized that

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