There are confessions, too. Nights where things went wrong in ways that could not be undone by a sober morning or a playlist. Damage done in the name of survival that thinned his skin and left him raw. He admits the missteps but refuses to be consumed by them. Instead, he catalogs the repair: long serviceable conversations, therapy sessions that felt like laying bricks, and the tiny rituals that steadied him—watering a plant until it bloomed, calling his mother on Sundays, returning a borrowed record.