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The Last First Day

"Ward Christopher!!" I hollered up the stairs for what felt like the thousandth time... "If you cannot stop teasing your sister, you are skipping dinner and going straight to bed tonight!  I've had it!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- During breakfast, a song plays in the cd player.  The singer croons, " And our babies never cry, and we can look you in the eye, and say, 'I'm not afraid to die-e-e-e .'" Elliot: "What's that mean?" Ward: "It means, he's lived a good life and so he's not afraid to die now." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I looked at him a thousand times tonight. I thought about how little he still is, in some ways.  Relentlessly teasing his sister, still struggling to swim; he hasn't even lost a