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Separated by an age gap of almost 13 years, these two have cultivated a bond during this time in quarantine.  It's the perfect relationship for them both.  Each of them adoring the other.  Memories of this time...this lost year...will always bring to mind the two of them sitting side by side, video game controllers in their hands, talking about creepers, skeletons and tnt.  The clicking of the buttons, and the endless chatter of their Minecraft game, will forever be etched into my mind.  A bond of brotherhood, forged in a pandemic, within our four walls.  This is a moment in time, when age did not matter, and necessity was indeed the mother of invention.  Teens and toddlers.  A joy to raise both simultaneously.    

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