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TIFU by telling my girlfriend to just go and hug her brother

This FU happened around three years ago. I was at home texting my girlfriend who was having a rough day. She was home reminiscing her baby brother, who sadly had passed away a couple years before. (May he rest in peace). At the time, she had only mentioned him to me once, and it was brief. She was telling me how she was sad and how she missed her brother so much. She tells me she wishes she could hug him again. Im reading her texts and I’m blatantly confused because she has another younger brother, who I thought that’s who she was referring to. Thinking I had missed something, or that she had forgotten to tell me something, like maybe her brother went on a trip, I proceed to respond with, “What? Isn’t your brother in his room? Why don’t you just go and give him a hug?” In my head I’m thinking, “Bruh what is this girl on, her brother lives in the same house, why doesn’t she just find and hug him?” I wait a good minute for her to respond and she replies with, “Not that one, I’m talking about my dead brother.” At this point my jaw drops and I’m sitting there realizing what I had just said. I then stare at my phone in disbelief at what I did. I begin apologizing to her for what just happened. She laughed about it and told me it was okay, but I felt so bad and it still haunts me to this day that I did that.

TL:DR Girlfriend texts me saying she misses her dead brother, I tell her to go and hug him.

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