This really looks so much fun, and hearing you say that you find yourself 'sloppy as a man', is really making me say. I think your wife is so proud of you, and how you looked. Because for what I can see in these pictures you didn't do anything less then the other men on the pictures.

And what a treasure to be so close after so many years! I had a very bad primary school time, and high school was not that much better. And I don't ever see someone from that time. I won't change that, even if I had the change, but to read a story like this is even more heartwarming. Just to see that IT IS possible! Great! Fantastic and treasure it!