Patrick

I shall not send this one, for I fear putting pressure on you to read a long block of text. The greatest fear is never that you will ignore me, but that you will pay too much attention. For many years I have thought of what it means to love your family and to protect someone. When we were younger, the failures of my inexperience were plain to see. Now, I find myself learning from you how to care for others and prevent resentment. As you know, I oscillate between wanting to spend a lot of time and being holed up in my room with my latest deep dive. Recently, esp. given the developments in our family, I have seen the irreplaceable value of regular and reserved communion. You are much more mature than me in this regard. In you, I see the good of everyone else in our family, and the struggles we all surely face. Maybe you are the best archetype of what it means to be "one of us".