Modern Love - A Gay and Straight Brother Are Each Other's Best Friends

You ever have those moments, when you're thinking about Sam and Dean, where you're like OMFG THEY'RE SO IN LOVE? 'Something Wicked' always does that for me -- it's all about how Sam and Dean have loved each other since the dawn of time, Dean failed to protect Sam that one time and now he can't do anything without thinking of keeping his brother safe, and also did I mention their truly epic love for each other? And how no one in the entire world is more important to those two boys than each other?

Well. The Modern Love column from this Sunday's New York Times had pretty much the exact same effect on me.

"A Brother as Significant as Any Other" by Laurence Everett Forbes

I was flying high when my younger brother was hired to sling baggage for a major airline, only to be grounded when I learned that siblings didn’t qualify for flight benefits.

But I was thankful when Jeff found a loophole: family benefits were not just for spouses, but also for “significant others.” Knowing I would never be the former, he listed me as the latter, a designation that would rank me second in priority only to employees, and ahead of our parents, whom I could bump should it come down to making a flight or being left behind.

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Gyah, amazing.