My little brother tortured me with a cassette tape player when he was about 8 years old. He chased me around the house playing the song "Playin with the Queen of Hearts" over and over and over again. It was brutal but somehow our relationship grew into the supportive one it is today. I like to remind him of his awful taste in music back then- but I guess I was the one who listened to the Partridge Family when I was 8 . I will admit that I tried to influence his musical choices after that period. I was worried that he was headed down the wrong path. The first tape I ever made for him had the Boomtown Rats on one side and The Jam on the other. He listened to it on our very modern Sony Walkman. The following year I got him Big Country's "The Crossing." I am pretty sure he was the only kid in his grade that had a Big Country album. He was that cool.
Happy Birthday, little brother. I think I'll make you a "mix tape" from the bottom of my heart.
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