My bigger (even though I'm the oldest) brother was married last saturday. I have three kids now. You can see all of them in the picture from the wedding. Sam and Benjamin wore suits. Ana wore a princess dress. Somehow they all made it down the aisle at the beginning of the ceremony. Sam was in his element. He loved wearing a suit. He couldn't stop talking about it. Benjamin, not yet 2 years old, used all of his cognitive powers to shout two words repeatedly: NO SUIT!!! He wore one anyway. And with the promise of a new basketball, he walked through a sea of people. Ana was in heaven. Princess dress. Flowers. Dancing after the ceremony. The world could be no more perfect.
Tommy is married now. I am happy. We made it - my brothers and me. We were young together, and now we are adults together, altogether different people that we were as boys, yet still much the same. Godspeed, Tommy. I am proud of you.
