A good reason you ought to be more sure that you can believe in people, Dick? I very much doubt I would have kept myself together were it not for you and your brother and your father. You gave me a family when I needed it. Even with my brother here, you were always here as well.

[And that he doesn't mean lightly either.] If I had gone prematurely, this version of me was about to cease existing, become someone else with only quiet memories of having been myself. Simply being there saved this personality, this particular life.

Remember that in the future.