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Josies Triumph   Even though I am the elder brother and shes the younger sister, Josie was always a head t totallyer, and a good 40 pounds heavier than me when we were growing up. I hated that. I was the big brother. I was hypothetical to be dominant and protective. But while she was the biggest kid in shoal, I was nearly the smallest.   Josies size and strength further made my lack of those two qualities to a greater extent apparent. I was two years ahead 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 bothersome reached a whole new level 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 cantillate again and again on the bus, Paul, Paul, hes so sma ll, but his sisters ten feet tall 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 stop them. Nothing seemed to bother Josie anyway. I never heard her complain or so much as see her wince. I just assumed that her interior 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 chummy glasses, and without them, was nearly blind. She, to my relief, had temporarily become the butt 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 chanted that because it rhymed with bat.   It started as a normal lunch break, with Josie and Ginny standing together in line.