I don't know if this even counts as a real confession, more like a weird observation I guess. Anyone else ever watch someone you love just— *buy* something huge for your parents, like a whole-ass luxury car, and you're just standing there, a store manager, knowing you could never in a million fucking years do that? It was my younger brother, the surgeon, of course. And I wasn't even angry, not really, just this flat... *huh* feeling. Like, damn, I guess this is it then. This is how the chips fall.