I love and appreciate my body.

Appreciate has a second meaning in accounting: to gain value over time through nothing more dramatic than being held onto.

Your hands have been with you the entire way.

The scar across one knuckle from a door in a flat you rented at twenty-three. The thumb that bends further than the other one and always has. That's a record, not a defect.

Loving a body gets easier when you stop grading it and start reading it. It kept its side of the arrangement through every year you weren't paying attention.