Mags, I'm surprised I've lived as long as I have. Kinda been livin on borrowed time as is. Didn't think I'd ever get this close to my 20s.

[Truthfully he'd honestly believed he would die in the war, that he'd never see a single day of the peacetime they so desperately fought for. And he knew the others felt the same.]

Think the chances of living as long as you is near impossible!

[He was just a normal human guy after all. Nothing special or magical about him.]