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When my older brother, Patrick, asks me if I want to go to Wreck Beach, he doesn’t specify that it’s a nude beach. I’d heard him talk about it before and recalled that detail he seemed to be omitting. “Isn’t it a nude beach?” I ask. “Yeah, I guess it is,” he says.

My brother and I lead different lives. I’m a homeowner in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., in my 16th year of teaching high school, living with the same partner for 10 years. I take comfort in routine and predictability. He lives in Vancouver, where he rents a one-bedroom apartment,

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