Tragedy happens every day but you don’t really expect it to impact your life until it does. My life had been ordinary with loving parents and an annoying younger brother. We were a typical suburban family with a nice house, big backyard and dog. But that all changed the year my brother died unexpectedly. He wasn’t sick, he didn’t waste away, he was just ... suddenly gone. No longer in our life and leaving a vast blank space where he’d once been.











