Loved the post. Especially this:
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I walked out there, located said assholes, and gave them to know that their classmate had better make it home all safe and sound or their immediate future was going to be complex and turbulent.
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Outstanding turn of a phrase.
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I’ve found that it’s age dependent. If they’re both still in their 20’s, then yes, violence is essentially required. In their 30’s it’s optional, anything after that, a reasonable exchange of insults and retelling of wuss-behavior stories from each other’s past is perfectly acceptable. Even guys know that two 50 year old brothers wrestling is just kind of sad.
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I think after 35, some kind of beer ritual is involved.
I thought back to try to remember an occasion when my 2-years-older brother stood up for me. Nope. He never did, the jerk.
Ivlad’s sisters have four kids between them, two boys and two girls, all about a year apart in age, so they’re all in the 9-10 range now.
They’ve grown up together, they’re very close…we call them The Babies, because they were all babies together.
So, you can imagine, when they were about 3-4, when one of my nieces was getting picked on at a park, not one, not two, but three tots came charging up to get in the bullier’s face.
I don’t think he knew what hit him. 
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn]
Great story!
You have remembered the face of your father. 
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Say true. 