The Brothers Torres

This is a picture I took of Bertram and Bene Torres last year at 20th Street Park in Chico. I used to baby-sit for these guys.

In this picture Bertram (the one in the foreground) is a few months shy of sixteen and his brother, Bene (standing in the background) is, I believe, twenty-one. When I first started babysitting for them in 1996, Bertram was eight years old and Bene was twelve. As a seventh grader, Bene was not thrilled about having a babysitter in the house, but Bertram was too young to be insulted by the idea. In fact, he thought I was the bee’s knees and I thought he was, too. Still do.

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