“Have you told your brother?”
Momentarily speechless, my mouth agape, I finally shook off my stunned silence.
“No, and I have no intention of telling him.”
It was our dad’s turn to be dumbfounded.
“How can you not?”
“It’s really easy. I deleted his cell number from my phone, I blocked his emails, he never gave me his new address….” I ticked each one off on my fingers.
“He should know.”
“Why? So he can burn me again with his caustic arrogance? That’s not what I need right now.”
“He’ll be hurt when he finds out.”
“No, he’ll be relieved.”
Thin spiral notebook 
Now I want to know what is that intriguing thing to tell. Nice post!
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Intriguing. It’s also quite sad that their relationship is like this. I like the dialogue—it feels real. I wonder what it is that the brother doesn’t know…
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I relate to this because I’m been through this with my sibling. The attitude is both painful and liberating. You captured it perfectly.
Great 100
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I too, want to know what the brother doesn’t know, what happened between the brother and the sister, and why doesn’t the dad tell his son, if it’s something he should know? Come on, you can’t just leave us all hanging. 🙂
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My brother seems to enjoy using my FB as his own personal podium and it rubs me the wrong way. I actually considered blocking him this week, but we talked it out instead.
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Just had my first ever real spat with my brother. So stupid. I guess I’m lucky to have made it to 34 before it happened. Ugh, I can’t imagine this type of relationship. Horrible.
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LOL, I see that we all want to know what happened. Though I don’t wish to just know what the brother doesn’t know, but I also want to know what happened that created such a distance, and why the sister sees it as something to disown him from.
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this physically hurt. (Sorry, it did)
Blocking people from our lives (as if that in and of itself ) will keep us safe in harbor from them makes me sad. Sickness, death or even (and in spite of itself) happiness will all still show up.
but this piece, was truthful, harsh, written to convey the sentiment of wanting to erase a person and that you did well, with just 100 words. Wow, the punch of the word “relieved”
(We all want to know what it is he can’t know…;) )
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Yes, please! You can’t leave us hanging like this!
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But now I have to ask WHAT doesn’t the brother get to know???
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