You're cool-looking. I would (respectfully) stop you in public if I ever saw you. You would be wearing something I recognize. You *are* somebody I recognize. You were perhaps the first person I met that I did after years of feeling like I saw myself in nobody. Since then, you've been my closest fellow traveler, someone on the same roads as me, along by my side the whole way (even if I run the fuck off with let's-not-talk-about-them-any-longer). You've made me feel less alone and been interesting, cool, funny, unrelenting, brash, and kind in that. You stand as yourself, and that will always be someone I admire, and someone I am proud to call a friend. Thank you for everything.
