We are best in our fullness, ugly or beautiful, and encouraging fullness in each other is an embrace (though in fairness, sometimes it is simply an excuse to be a little bitchier about someone we’re irritated with). He is never too much, and equally valuable to me is the notion that I’m not, either. That I can go far, spread myself out into the world, and there’ll always be someone who is cheering me on to go even further.