[John's glad to see that his choice in gifts was not wrong with Ishimaru. He hadn't exactly been worried that the other boy would dislike it, he's typically pretty good at picking out gifts (if he does say so himself). But it does give him the warm fuzzies to see him wearing it, all the same.]

It's actually been a while since I've lost anybody! We kind of seem to be on the other side of things now. Our friends who have been gone for a while are starting to trickle back in, slowly but surely. So I'm really glad for that and I hope the trend continues.

[They have full kid bingo. This has literally never happened in all of John's stay here.]

Sounds like you're doing a little better now though!