"Y'know, I had a friend like that? Maybe not that same scenario, but I liked bein' around him just the same. But I messed some stuff up an' he cut me out. If I was you, I'd tell him somethin' what it is you think of him while you're still good. You never know what kinda shit misunderstandin's can ruin ever'thin'."

Which he can't really shut up with that kind of advice, not when he sees someone that might unknowingly be at the same risk that he was a long time ago. When he never got to make things up to someone.