It was there. I lost three friends/classmates in high school in the mid-eighties, and two more in the next few years following. You just got lucky.

Yep. My dad told me to always have a fake wedding band on hand for bars and cops. He wasn’t wrong.

Same place. It is one of the curiosities of life that somehow men think getting kicked in the groin only hurts if you have a dick. Trust me, that is not the case.