Many years ago when I was in college I had a very close relationship with one cousin. We just started talking again and might get together this summer. I told him I should probably send him a pic of myself, given all the changes in my life. Just to be sure I don't scare him off. And he said, " I could give a ->-bleeped-<- less what you look like on the outside. I know on the inside you are still the same person I have always loved."
And that feels really good.