From Stone Hard to soft like a cuddly pink teddy bear, if you can imagine

[Baldylocks]

Once I was so hard and never broken with as much care as a dead fish. But now I cry at the sight of a dried up slug. I once sucked up the pain as Alpha males are taught but now I scream. Yes sometimes I miss that tough old guy and if I could have him back without the cancer, I think perhaps, maybe but I pause because my gain in humanity, in feeling and in caring is so greatly increased I might very well hang on to this old softie in favor of my once Stone Hard Rock.