Please don't apologize at all, this is wonderful to hear - thank you so much. :) Since this is a pretty personal fic, I'm so happy that the things that have struck a chord with me did the same with other people. (Which definitely includes that struggle you mention, between accepting your identity in relation to other people while establishing yourself as an individual.) Thank you again for reading and for the great comment, I'm really glad the story worked this way for you.