A lot for me to think about here and believe me I will. Maybe in time I will come to feel like sharing my life with someone else, a proper relationship again rather than temporary companionship, "friends with benefits" (which we've done before, back in the day, but maybe that's a story for another time and Area 69). In fact, I never imagined I'd find myself admitting that, so thank you for getting me to that point.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'