Impressive. Most impressive. But you are not a jedi yet.

I am impressed. You're doing great with this. It's amazing how much she's softened and how you've become her source of comfort. Being the Marsian that I am, I still wonder in some of these circumstances whether our Venusians really do want something fixed rather than just support. Oh well. Sounds like you handled it right. Glad you had a nice B-day.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt