Despite numerous attempts, my brother would always get cold feet at the last moment and plans would get cancelled.
Learning that I had a large part to play in what my brother had gone through is something that causes me a great deal of pain to this day, and it’s something that I’m working hard to make right.
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Sitting on the terrace of a café in the old town of Gdansk, my brother and I sipped coffee in silence.
I deliberately distanced myself from my brother as I didn’t want him figuring out that something wasn’t right.
