I'm thankfully intact for the most part. Still healing, but none of the wounds will cause any permanent damage.

[Not many of the physical ones anyway.]

I am. Infinitely lucky to have him in my life. Yes, since we were nine years old. We're both thirty-five now. I think we've known one another on and off for the last twenty-six years.

[Boy did that make him feel old.]

I owe him everything, he helped me be the man I am today.