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I really don't want very many people reading this one. :/

Tonight for some reason I am thinking upon many things. Mom calls me her philosopher. I like to think on things, moments, people, words, etc. I like to ponder them and critic them. I started to think about my brother and sister. We are unlike any other siblings that I know. Each time we have moved we have been forced into a situation where we know no one. All our friends are left behind. People whom we have grown to love and appreciate are know longer there to support us. Instead of reaching out to other people, we seemed to draw inward. I mean we came to each other for our missing friendship. We have laughed together. We have been heartbroken together. Notice that I have always said we. For the longest time we have been known as "the kids". The preachers kids. Dennis and Regena's kids. Until Eli when to college, we functioned together. Until then I had never been away from them for more then 2 weeks at a time. I know that doesn't seem like much, but each time we got back together we seemed to function as one again. That is how it is now. When together we are different. Eli is funny and entertaining, while also being protective and rigid. Hope is his accomplice in crime. She feeds his jokes and together they are able to create fantastic stories. I am the one being protected. I am the one usually trying to brake into their friendship and be apart of their bond, but I am only able to sit back and laugh at what they do. We have often gone to places to visit friends of my parents whom they have not seen in years. There are times when we are placed alone and separate from them and other times we are placed beside people we don't know and who don't seem to care to know us. Instead of being sad and bored, Eli and Hope were able to burst into life. They have been able to take the small events of a day, and turn it into a tale of stupidity and humor, while I sat appreciating what seemed to be a work of art. They have taken a simple story and turn it into an epic event that we still laugh about today. When we are confident we are confident in numbers. We have each other's back. If we are placed in a situation where we are not being payed attention to, when know one seems to want to get to know us, we seem to draw from the fact that we are together. That is where our confidence lies.