[ what it did to him is a topic for another day, right now dean goes for a smile, though it's not quite there. ]

And you made it count good, Sam. [ despite the sadness, the year with lisa that he'd wasted wishing he could do something to bring sam back-- dean had been proud of his brother, so very, very proud. ]

That, and you did come back. I'm not sayin' any of it was easy, or that things are the same as before it-- but you're alive, which is all that matters. Everything else can be worked on.