Here I come, Lee's good ol' cheerleader!
For Lee: My brother is 3 years younger than me. We are very close, we know things about each other that our parents don't know-We share friends, we call each other, text each other and e-mail each other nearly everyday. When I had my daughter at 19, my brother was there for her as an uncle and as her Godfather. Even though we're both grown now, I can still sense that my brother looks up to me, and I love him so dearly. My husband is not really too close to his siblings, doesn't speak to his own sister, and he found my relationship with my brother peculiar-Why did I like him so much, why did we hang out and make time for one another? The answer, of course, is because we spent a lot of time as children sheltering each other through our parents divorce, their sloppy remarriages, protecting each other from bullies and being the only ones to tell each other the hard truth ("You look horrible today!").
My brother would be the only one left to go to bat for me when everyone else abandoned me-Don't get me wrong, he can be arrogant, self-righteous and downright judgemental. But at the end of the day, you would have to force him to turn on me. If, God forbid, my child died a suspicious death, he would exhaust every avenue until he couldn't anymore. I am not sure he would go as far as Lee did, but in the beginning, he would have believed in me, too.
Lee reminds me a lot of my brother.
The difference, however, is that I would never ever take advantage of him the way that KC took advantage of her family. I would never exploit his belief in me, I would never kill my child, his niece, his Goddaughter. I WOULD NEVER ACCUSE HIM OF HARMING ME. That would be unforgiveable and I know it.
Lee is nowhere near perfect and maybe not completely innocent in all of this, but he assumed the responsibility of taking the hits when he defended his sister. What he did not assume was the burden of being accused of molesting her, of fathering her child, or being a wierdo.
I am sorry for my part in the giant wave of voices accusing him of this, of being the reason that OCSO and FBI went ahead with the tests-because I firmly believe public outcry is the reason for it. Mostly, I am sorry for Lee and his parents that she could do something so cruel as to take his love for her, something I hold so dear with my own brother, and make it dirty.
