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From The New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.

Stories of Love, Laws, and Redemption.

I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.

I found the driver's name from a police report that had been filed in Florida 17 years before.

The report was torn and creased and incorrect.

It said, a boy was crossing the street on his bicycle, but there had been two boys in the road that day, and no bike.

It said, the boy was hit and his body was thrown 19 yards.

But he wasn't thrown.

He was dragged that far, caught in the dangling chains of the landscaping trailer hitched to the truck.

It said, someone fled the scene, but that someone was my older brother, Alex, and he didn't flee.

He dropped the bucket of fish he and Jonathan had caught and rushed over to his friend, but the boy was already dead.

Alex had just turned 15.

This is the day we never spoke about.

Uma Thurman, reading an essay by Jessica Sensen-Henrikez, it's called, the accident no one talked about.

We were born one year and three months apart, but looked like twins, with our rose-butt lips and Irish blue eyes.

Before the accident, we were inseparable.

We had our own rooms, but often shared my bed when we were little.

When we got too big for that, Alex started sleeping on my bedroom floor.

In the dark, we joke about all of the things we could buy.

If someday we won the lottery, a house made of pizza for him, and an island full of monkeys for me.

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