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My older brother Oliver died 32 years ago on March 12, 1980.

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He was a terrible brother. We never did anything together. He never played catch with me. He never advised me about girls. He didn’t help build the tree fort in the woods.

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He never swapped baseball cards with me or taught me how to fish.

My brother did provide me with some entertaining moments. Because he was blind, I spent many days when I was a boy pretending that I, too, was blind. I’d close my eyes to see how far I could get through the house without knocking down a lamp or table.

Sometimes, at least, Oliver was my Zen guru.

He was so quiet. Because he had no intellect, he’d just lie in his bed like a giant doll and I’d sit by his side and complain about my poor grades in algebra or discuss, aloud, that I liked this girl Linda, but she ignored me, and if only I had a Plymouth Roadrunner, perhaps she’d pay more attention to me.

Oliver never offered advice.

So in his silence I had to disc Christopher De Vinck: books, biography, latest update KIBYX