brothers fellows classmates
I will give  an example  .A few years ago my older brother and I were not getting  along  .We had been close as  [MASK]  but had grown apart.Our meetings were not  pleasant  ; our conversation was filled with arguments and quarrels; and every effort to clear the air seemed to only  deepen  our misunderstanding.Then he  moved to  a small island in the Caribbean and we  lost  touch.One day he wrote me a letter.He described his island and its people, told me what he was doing, said how he felt, and encouraged me to  write  .Rereading the letter, I was  surprised  by its humor and clever expressions.These were all qualities for which I had  once  respected my older brother but  thought  he no longer had them.I had never known he could write so  well  .And with that one letter we became friends  again  .