What unforgivable thing have you done that you'll never tell anyone about?

I grew up very poor with dysfunctional parents in a rural area.

My siblings and I often went hungry.

As the oldest, I always tried to look after them, but one day I failed hard.

When I was seven and my little brother was five, I was playing outside and he appeared with a Bologna sandwich that he had somehow scraped together from what he could find in the kitchen.

It was just a single piece of meat on two squished pieces of dried bread.

No cheese, no condiments, nothing else.

When I saw what he had, in a fit of jealousy, I knocked it out of his little fingers onto the ground.

He immediately burst into tears and started bending down to pick it up off the ground.

Before he could pick it up out of the dirt, the local pack of stereotypical dogs that a poor

rural family keeps, pushed him over and ate the sandwich.

He just lay there on the ground, covered in dust, crying and repeating over

and over, I made it to share with you. I'm now 30, and we have a close relationship, but not a day

goes by that I don't think about what I did on that one day out of petty jealousy. I want to

apologize, but I really am hoping that he does not or will not remember it. In short, I destroyed the food of my

sibling in a starving situation. Update, I talked to him this weekend while working on our cars.

He said he didn't remember it. He made such light of the situation that I couldn't even start to

explain how sorry I was about it without seeming overly dramatic. I do feel better,

though. Thanks everyone for talking me into getting this off my shoulders. My best friend and his

father were in an accident five years ago. We were both 16. His dad was declared dead at the scene

and he ended up in a coma for 12 weeks. I spent a lot of time at the hospital and his house,

and as a result, with his mum. A couple of weeks after the accident, she just broke down completely

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