People who had crisis situations in the past can have strong minds, and learn a lot through their experiences. I had such an experience when I was 16 years old. I had not known any bitter experiences until then. My family found out that my brother had brain cancer. That became my family's painful experience, but common hardship knitted my family together. I remember the situation at that time vividly, and I'll never forget what happened to us.
             After I got the phone call from mother, my face turned pale by the shock. My mother was in the hospital and told me that my brother had a terrible disease and would enter the hospital. I was suffering by the shock and could not understand how terrible his disease was at that time. For the time being, I went to the hospital hurriedly. When I saw my brother's face, I realized that he was in peril of his life. His face was a drawn and haggard, and he was sleeping like a log. After my parents and I came back to home, my father told us, "He will be fine. You don't have to worry about it". I understood my father lied to us. His disease was not a slight sickness. With the coming of winter, our hard life began from the next day. Our family used to have a dinner together with a big smile, but we never laughed while eating dinner and, mother was in the hospital all the time. The entire time I was thinking what would happen to my family and me if he would die. My heart was torn by grief, when I was thinking about that.
             One day, my brother transferred to another hospital because the doctor who was taking care of him said that my brother would need to have an operation on his brain. That operation was very dangerous, and it had strong possibility that he would be a handicapped person. Therefore, my parents decided to change his hospital. Two days later, he underwent a careful scrutiny at the new hospital. The hospital was very far from my house, so I often couldn
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