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Josies Triumph   Even though I am the older brother and shes the younger sister, Josie was always a head taller, and a good 40 pounds heavier than me when we were growing up. I hated that. I was the big brother. I was supposed to be dominant and protective. But charm she was the biggest kid in school, I was nearly the smallest.   Josies size and strength only made my lack of those two qualities more apparent. I was two years forrader of her in school, which meant that by the time she got to middle school I was already an 8th grader. Kids in middle school are not kind or accepting, and over the years they had continually made fun of my puny size and lack of athletic ability. But the teasing reached a whole new direct when Josie entered middle school. Now they had a new angle for tormenting me.   They would taunt, Hey Shrimp Your sister still beat you up? Or, they would chant again and again on the bus, Paul, Paul, hes so small, but his sisters ten feet tal l I guess that rhyme was hurtful to both of us, but I only felt my own humiliation. It still baffles me that I took no notice of my sisters feelings. The times when the jokes centered around her, like when they called her Josie the Giant, it was such a relief not to be their target that I did nothing to sojourn them. Nothing seemed to bother Josie anyway. I never heard her complain or so much as saw her wince. I just assumed that her intragroup was a steely as her exterior.   That was until the day she snapped.   There was a new girl, Ginny, in Josies class who wore really thick glasses, and without them, was nearly blind. She, to my relief, had temporarily become the seat of jokes and pranks. The latest chant that the kids had come up with was, Ginny, Ginny, short and fat, squinty-eyed and blind as a bat In all fairness, Ginny wasnt fat at all, but the kids intonate that because it rhymed with bat.   It started as a normal lunch break, with Josie and Ginn y standing together in line.