I'm not trying to dig into your personal stuff, but it feels like you and your brother had very different lives growing up there. Either that or he just chooses not to be as open about the bad stuff as you. It's funny when I see people who I knew in high school these days and they are totally different from what I remember. Though that is usually on social media, so who knows how much of it is real.
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I am pretty open with it, but don't mention much in detail here. Not because I couldn't or it upsets me, but because it isn't really relevant at that level.
We did have different childhoods, especially as my parents split up after he had moved, so family life changed. He is older than me and got out pretty young also. I am pretty sure he would never have stayed in that town either. There were some good people there, but not many.
I am sure that the people I grew up with have changed in many ways. But I remember them as they were only.
Very interesting. Thanks for being so candid. You both seem to have adjusted really well despite the adversity. I'm not saying my life was perfect, but I had the pretty idyllic American childhood minus marrying my childhood sweetheart and buying a house with a white picket fence, so a lot of times I don't feel like I have much insight on what some other people have gone through growing up.