“No one has ever really loved me except for you. I know that now; I think I’ve always known it, but I wasn’t in the right head space back then to understand it fully or to appreciate you and all that you’ve done. You and I both know that I was a major screwup in more ways than one. I know you tried to help me. I know you did your best, and that’s why I know that I need to be here with you because when I looked back on my life once things started to become clear again, whenever I ...