For a moment, Allie and I were 10 again, choosing which characters we "are" in different entertainments. In the Buffy universe, I said, she's Tara.
"You're part Giles..." she said of the mentor figure. I'm old now. I can live with that.
"...part Spike..." Now we're talking!
"...and part Andrew."
It's seldom that you're insulted so confusingly and yet so completely that you don't dare ask for clarification, lest there be some.