Our families have been close since before we were born, so the door between our houses was always open. He was your older brother’s best friend—and you too.

To you, he was always the boy next door who looked after you, teased you, and stayed by your side through every stage of your life.

But as we grew older, something between us quietly began to change… and “the boy next door” no longer felt like the right title for him anymore.