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Memories of my brother

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This month is the anniversary of two events that changed my life and my family's life forever. On May 16th it will be 20 years since my brother Jason was severely injured in an industrial accident. A week later it will 8 years since he passed on. I have been thinking about Jason a lot lately, perhaps because of these anniversaries. My parents and I often wonder what our life and Jason's life would have been like without these events. Would Jason be married and have his own children -- how cool would that have been? I think of our life growing up and how many cousins we had to play with, on both sides of the family. Then I look at Jaelyn and she has two cousins. I do realize that there are pros and cons to both situations. Because of how many cousins Jason and I had, we never really got to know our grandparents extremely well as anytime we were at their houses, there were cousins there. Then I look at Jaelyn and she often gets to spend time with both grand