That was how my brother could enter the solo competition.

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My mom always jokes about how people thought she the grandmother of my brother (who is 10 years younger than me) because I was always toting him around and caring for him as a baby.

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Thinking about how the years had flown by, I suddenly missed my brother, whom I hadn't seen for a long time.

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"This is exactly how my brother is going to be, " he said as he struggled to fasten the sides of the nappy.

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My family was on food stamps when I was a child, and I had the same question for my mom: How can we be poor and my brother be fat?

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