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and she went outside to flag it
down and slipped on the morning
dew. The fire truck ran over her
leg.
I loved my brother very much. My
mom told me I was the best brother
I could have been. \A/hen my
friends came over and we played
\-64, I let him come with us and
did not make
stay upstairs. I
always included him.
When all of my friends came
over to make a shiva call, I tried
not to cry and to be brave, but I
could not. Some of them brought
me candy and stuff, but I could not
eat. It was hard to sleep for days.
At the funeral I think there were
2,000 people. My teachers and
friends and my hockey coach were
all there. My hockey coach told me
that my team was going to wear
black arm bands in memory of
Evan. I went to that game, but I did
not play and at the end my coach
dedicated the game puck to Evan.
The whole team signed the puck.
My cousin who is older than me
made me a scrapbook to put mem-
ories of Evan inside. I brought it to
school and my friends wrote letters
to Evan.
I hope this cce.,--s not happen to
another child because it is so harsh.
I love my brother and miss him.

Part II

I admired my brother Evan
because he was very smart.
When my family would say some-
thing he never heard before he
would remember it, and later he
would say it. He had a very
good vocabul2_- , /
For him, learning looked easy.
He had a great memory. Evan
had brown hair and blue eyes.
He died at the age of 2-1/2. He
was very funny and silly. If he
would have grown up, he would
have played hockey, football and
other sports with me. He loved to
go places, my hockey games for
example.

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Evan liked Sesame Street, Bar-
ney and Blues Clues. When my
friends came over, I let him come
downstairs with us. When he saw
us playing Nintendo, he would
pick up a controller and play with
us also.
Evan was special to me. He
-'always said I was his hero, and he
called me by the nickname
"Buddy." I had a very special rela-
tionship with him.
Now I go to shul and say
prayers for him. I know that kids
complain that they hate their
brothers and sisters, but if their
brothers or sisters died they would
be heartbroken. I believe that life
is important and the little things
are not. God, I miss him. I will
always remember hirn. LJ

Bradley Pierce, 1 1, of Waterford,
wrote these essays in memory of
his little brother, Evan Tyler Otis,
who died April 12, 1998.
Bradley is in fifth-grade at Hillel
Day School of Metropolif3n
Detroit.

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