Johnny, my little brother who's already been written about several times, has a real-life brother. I'm NOT talking about ADOPTED brothers, mind you--I am talking about his BIOLOGICAL brother.
Johnny's real-life brother is named Erick. Erick Heinrich Denver. He is 5 years older than Johnny. He is 14. He was only 9 when Johnny was born--however, he never got to know his baby brother because when Johnny was born he was born premature and spent a little over a month in the hospital, and then, when he got out, he was put up for adoption after the boys' grandmother died. (The boys' mother had died while giving birth to her youngest son.)
Erick was adopted by a family named Trachtenheimer in New York City, New York, where he now lives. (In HIS family he has 3 little sisters--Wren [6], Tawnee [4], and Chloe' [2]--and 4 little brothers--Pete [11], Shawn [8], Birch [1], and the baby, Gardner, who is just 3 weeks old.) Erick has lived in New York City since he was adopted at age 10--four years. Before then, he was in Germany, which is where both he and his little brother were born. They were born in Munich, West Germany.
Like Johnny, Erick has platnum-blonde hair (excepting his isn't NEARLY as light as Johnny's is) and blue, blue eyes. And, like Johnny, Erick wears glasses. He also has the same fair skin tone and burns easily whenever outside in the sun.
But--he isn't physically disabled. He can walk just fine, and he doesn't have trouble hearing or seeing or any trouble with his schoolwork.
Unlike his little brother, Erick has a strong German accent when he talks. One thinks of Oktoberfest, weinerschnitzel, or huge biergardens (spelling??) when they hear Erick speak. (Johnny has a weird accent: it's a New York type--nothing Germanic about it AT ALL--it sounds like he was born in DA BRONX!!!!)
Erick is passionate about model trains (he has quite a collection, I'm told), AC/DC, KISS, and other "headbanger" rock music acts, skateboarding, snow skiing, and any winter-type sport, foos ball, hackeysack, street hockey, and rap music (in particular, Mystikal).
He wants to be a professional rapper when he gets to be an adult. (He's already come up with his stage moniker: E. D. NOYZE.)
That, or an Olympic skier. That's another thing he likes: The Olympics (especially the Winter Games).
Like most teen boys his age, Erick loves baggy clothes: the baggier, the better. (He loks like he just crawled from bed half of the time!) He also loves high-top shoes and baseball caps.
I know a lot about Johnny's brother because I met him last summer, when he came to Tennessee to visit Johnny for a week.
He was a nice kid (although his rap music NEARLY DROVE US CRAZY!!!!).
And he's kinda' cute, if you know what I mean.....
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