Sweet story! Speaking of scars, though, they can be pretty cool. I had my appendix out when I was young, and in an era when the cosmetic side wasn’t as advanced. As a result, as a young man I had a disproportionately large, ugly-looking scar on my abdomen, and I took to telling girls who asked about it that I’d gotten it from a knife fight. Which was kinda technically true.
I won’t say it got me laid, because by the time women were in a situation to ask about the scar, that train was usually already in motion, but it was a good story.