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This is what was in the box.

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There were quite a few exercise books...

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...full of level designs for some imaginary game...

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...and some very colourful drawings (if a bit random).

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This exercise book contained page after page of word and number puzzles...

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...and this handy guide to making magic number squares.

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This notebook started with an admonishment to anyone who dared read it. It wasn't my brother's handwriting though so I left it alone.

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One of the books had dozens of level designs for Lemmings.

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This photograph was hiding at the bottom on its own. Woo hoo!

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There was a folder absolutely packed with doodles, scribblings, old schoolwork... pages and pages and pages of the stuff.

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Here's a few doodle highlights, chosen for humour value and maximum embarrassment.

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There are many unclothed women doodled onto this one. Or pieces of women.

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That says "ideal girl look: long hair better black, not short, tanned colour, not fat, symmetrical, looks good with no make up so doesn't use it, strong."

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I laughed at the cross/butt thing. It says "that's what I think of religion."

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This is just weird. A Frankenstein tangle of connected female body parts.

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There was a bit of porn in there, including some that had been digitally manipulated to have my brother's friends' faces on the actors' bodies - but it was a little too... er... risqué to be posted here.

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There was a lot of old schoolwork in there. This was probably the oldest piece - it must be pushing two decades old.

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And there were a lot of stories and musings and things.

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My bro showed some fair artistic talent at an early age.

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There were a couple of sets of lyrics, although no music to accompany them. Quite funny to read them though. You can read the lyrics if you view the file full size.

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The first verse of this song ("Little Brother") goes: "I get busted every day - I never get my way - That's a total lie - I get sweets I get money - All the girls think I'm funny - A new car every spring - I get away with everything - I got muscles I got brains - An expert on passing blame - I'm an insincere git - I'm such a little shit - NOT." Sheer genius.

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There was a photo album...

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...but no juicy photos. A family holiday we had in 1994.

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OK, that's not my brother. That's me.