That's reassuring... it'd be so awful if we no longer matched! I'd like to grow old with my partner, at the same pace...

Ah...

[He's starting to shed tears again. Very easily brought to tears, this one.]

Have you seen her, by the way? A red-haired woman, strong and determined, but often a bit sullen or angry-looking, with a stylish Team Rocket uniform much like mine...?