Joshua Lee Fitzpatrick

Josh is was and will always be my little brother- one time a long time ago we were riding bikes down in arkansas and unfortunately I had been trained to ride bikes with pedal brakes and all they had there were bikes with hand brakes you can see the problem. We started riding and after about 15 minutes we came to a really steep gravel hill we started down it and afer just a minute I was flying out of control and instead of slowing down I grabbed te brakes as hard as I could and went flying over the handlebars and slid for about 4 or 5 feet. I was tore up from head to toe,I had to have six stitches in my right elbow,my left hand swelled up to twice its size,and all my ribs were red and scarred, to name a few. I had josh go back to the house to get dad. With 5 sisters around it was hard to find time for just me and josh but we did on occasion. We loved playing video games together we could always beat the girls and for most of his life I could beat him at chess but by the time he turned 16 he was much better than me. I have a small mark on my right knee,a scar on my left hand and a really big scar or my right elbow because they did a crappy job on the stitches all these little things are a reminder of just me and him hanging out ,everytime I see them or some one says whats did you do to your elbow ? I smile cause I'm thinking of him. I wish iI could have been there more for him I love and miss him more than words can say.