The Seven Loves of John Bates
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Platonic/Family Love
As a child, there is one person in the world that John loves above anyone else. The only person he can tell anything to, the only person that will tell him anything. They have wonderful fun together, and there's nobody he'd rather spend his time with. He may be a twelve-year-old boy, but this person, he knows with all his soul, is the person he loves most. More than his sisters, more than his parents, more than anybody - John loves his little brother.