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My older brother, Mark, disappeared when I was just seven.

The last memory I have of him comes from a lazy Saturday afternoon in the summer of 2008.

He was lying in our backyard porch with a bunch of his high school friends eating ice cream cones

and arguing about horror movies or something.

I don't know, I never paid much attention to the conversations, but I do know

they were excited about going to their first real party later that night.

I came outside to give Mark a gift.

It was a charm bracelet I'd made for him from a series of strong-degas-legal blocks.

For good luck, I told him.

Mark looked at the bracelet.

I'd scrolled letters on it in a sharpie, one letter per block.

Together they spelled out, Mookie, my nickname for him since I was a toddler.

Mark just laughed and pocketed the bracelet.

Thanks, smelly, he said, tussling my hair.

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