Damn. I broke cover. 
I thought you’d be taller.
OP, I still think you can be grateful for the difference between “I thought you were dead” and “Why aren’t you dead?” 
“The deceased are always the last to know.”
- Nostradamus “Bull” Shannon
Still pretending you are alive, if only to piss my very-probably-dead wife off. However, the path between states is flexible.
RCAF and fear of heights. Good mix. 
What’s worse for me is not only that my cover is blown but that i’ve been hanging out with one of his friends all week. Small internet.
Increasingly so, every day.
Not Dead Yet
‘Starting to’? Only if the OP is slower on the uptake than the rest of us…
Right. Just to the OP. No one else.
Increasing, er, hands. Quite fetching.