Christopher Anthony Bingham

This is a picture of my brother Christopher. This is a picture of me at about age 2-3. He is a year older than me but he has always been like my best friend.

When you are growing up it is easy to be friends with your siblings because you are together all the time.

My parents had us when they were young so we moved around alot when we were really little.We always had eachother though. We fought like brother and sister but every little kid does. But he was my best friend, and he still pretty much is.

He is seventeen and he lives in Missouri, which is fourteen hours away. He lives in a group home so all of our visits have to be scheduled and the staff there has to approve whether or not I am aloud to call him or not. Everytime I talk to my brother it makes me really sad and then i get pissed off that he is not here with me. The same thing happens to him so we are not aloud to talk sometimes.

It's always been that way.

We have always stood up for eachother and we are both very protective of eachother. I remember one time when a little boy called my brother a retard so i beat the hell out of him. I think i was like six or seven but i saw how bad it hurt his feelings and I didn't like it. and now that i am older he is always trying to protect me from boys. haha.

One of the biggest problems with him being so far away is that I can't be there to protect him. If someone is hurting him there is nothing I can do about it. Then he will go and get himself into trouble.

It just makes me so mad!!!

If anyone noticed I was crying on Wednesday it was because i had just gotten off the phone with my mom and i found out that the staff at Chris's place was being mean to him. So he fought back and now he he cannot come home for the weekend. It made me really sad because i miss him so much!! I even had to wait to write this blog until i got home because looking at all the pictures of us and writing about him and our memories makes me so sad!! I have so many good memories of Christopher but i cannot write them all because i will be here all day!