Thank you for emailing me back (and thanking me for taking the time to email you - that you appreciate me updating you feels really nice, especially because I thought you might find it annoying.)
I deeply value your faith in my ability to succeed. Even when I believed it meant you couldn't see the real me (the hopeless me). Now I see you meant it. And I love you for it. I think that love is a love for a part of myself that I still won't allow a voice.