Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parents saw signs early on that he seemed to be fighting an internal battle, but no matter how hard they affirmed and encouraged my brother, he seemed to be drifting away from his responsibilities and his dreams...
...fall of 1985, my brother left our home in Winter Park, Fla., for Yale. We were all very proud, but the experience that was about to begin would only worsen my brother's esteem. In his two years at Yale, he encountered a harshness that took him in and spit him out in so many ways. My brother never graduated, and for the next 10 years he wandered from job to job and city to city without finding the security he was so desperately looking...
...wonder what I can learn from having lost someone so precious in my life. By choosing to come to Harvard, I have followed in my brother's footsteps, in a way, and I believe I am seeing and experiencing what he saw 13 years ago. I see a place that is too often built on cynicism, criticism and sarcasm, and a place that pretends to have more and more information, yet that is increasingly void of meaning...
After the death of my brother, my mother revealed something I think about every day. She told me that my brother had been greatly concerned when I left for Harvard, fearing that I would encounter and be disillusioned by the same cynicism that he had felt at Yale years earlier...
...another chance with my brother, I would have been more compassionate, would have prayed harder, would have listened better. I don't have that chance. But we have a chance on this campus to live in such a way that our lives reflect our passion and interest in others. I am grateful for those people who have exemplified this spirit of community in my life here...