Dear big bro,

Mitchell Ray you are the best brother a sister can ask for. I know everyone says that, but for me it is real.

We are not that stereotypical brother and sister relationship, where they both hate each other and fight constantly, we are the rare brother and sister that never fight and great along extremely well, which I think is pretty special.

Ever since we were kids we always got along. You would think as kids we would hate each other, but nope we didn’t.

You make me laugh when I’m down and will listen to my problem, it is also vise versa. You have helped me a lot my entire life with all of the things that I have been through. It is nice knowing that a brother will help me sin those kinds of circumstances I have been in.

I remember one time, it was me you were home by ourselves and we were goofing off, and you hit a golf ball into one of the pictures we had on the wall and broke the glass. We were in shock we had no clue what to do.

When our mom found out we didn’t say anything we just starred at each other, not knowing what to say to her, but eventually she got it out of us. We didn’t get in that much trouble. We still have it, just not with the glass in it.

We can say about anything to each other, you listen about my school problems and I listen to all of your problems. We will give each other advises after we listen to each other’s problems.

There are lots of things in common such as our love for sports, but one thing that are in common that we really enjoy which is to watch “The Walking Dead”. We talk about what happened in the latest episode, who you think is going to be killed and about the characters we like and don’t like (We don’t agree all of the time about that, but who does).

It was a sad day when you left for college because that meant I wouldn’t see you every day, and you would be two hours away in Greenville. Although we still kept in touch. Even though we didn’t talk every day.

Mitchell Ray, you are a great big brother for sometimes taking and picking me up from dance and for coming just to one of my dance recitals each year, it’s okay that you didn’t go to all of them I won’t hold it against you.

Being a big brother is hard and you do it perfectly. You make sure I’m okay when I look upset and if I’m not you comfort me. It is a great partnership that we have. Our bond was close when we were kids and it is getting stronger as the years go by. I am happy to say to people that Mitchell VanGelder is my big brother. That is quite an accolade.