\u201c-DAminykai,\u201d Pa mumbles with a mouth full of toothpaste.
\n\u201cWhat?\u201d her brother replies, brushing his teeth.
\n\u201cCan you look here\u2014\u201d I can\u2019t see exactly, but I guess where she\u2019s pointing.
\n\u201cNo.\u201d
\n\u201cWhy?\u201d
\n\u201cI don\u2019t want to look there.\u201d
\n\u201cCan you at least look for a moment, so you can tell Mom that I did a lot of \u2018poos\u2019 before bed?\u201d
\n\u201cThen you tell her yourself\u2026\u201d
\n\u201cNo, you look and tell her. She\u2019ll think I lied again.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you never lie,\u201d Pa finishes, and I can\u2019t help laughing.<\/p>\n
Sometimes I listen to their conversations and hold my breath, just so I won\u2019t be noticed eavesdropping. And every time I think:
\n\u2014How good it is to have an older brother.<\/p>\n
I remember childhood days in the yard\u2026 when friends who had even slightly older brothers were already somehow superior.
\n\u201cI\u2019ll call my brother\u2026\u201d they would say. And everyone knew that meant the highest-level punishment.<\/p>\n
Those brothers often did nothing; sometimes they were even shorter than younger girls in the yard and weren\u2019t \u201cfearsome\u201d in appearance\u2026
\nBut the fact that an OLDER BROTHER would be called to defend a sister already made you plan your evacuation home.<\/p>\n
Everyone else\u2019s threats like \u201cI\u2019ll tell Mom\u201d or \u201cI\u2019ll call my sister\u201d or \u201cI\u2019ll complain to Dad when he gets home\u201d never had the same weight as the older brother.<\/p>\n
So I sincerely envied my friends \u201cblessed with older brothers.\u201d
\nMy Pa was gifted with a brother almost five years older.
\nI don\u2019t know if older brothers feel blessed with princess-type \u201clittle monsters\u201d around them,
\nbut the fact that sisters feel safe behind them, like competent walls in every matter, constantly tapped by tiny fingers, is undeniable.<\/p>\n
For the BRO,
\nV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-17536","istorija","type-istorija","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viktorijos.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/istorija\/17536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viktorijos.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/istorija"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viktorijos.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/istorija"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viktorijos.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}