hey, not bad . . .

i’ve been doing this poll once a year for like seven or eight years lol

and:

thank you, sarah!

listen: as a younger man, i was a mess. i was emotionally volatile and chaotic. a few good women tried in vain to fix me when they ought not to have. bless them! and then one day, in my early thirties, i got over myself. suddenly i was a Good Boyfriend. for lack of a better word, i chose love. what else is there?? and so nowadays i come at the world with total sincerity, even if it hurts me, which it often does. and yet i cannot do it any other way. i am imperfect, to be sure . . . i am a fool. but i always do my best . . . !!!