We're 9 years apart

You should have more confidence about the relationship. If you two still have feelings to each other, then you would have a large chance to get together again. :)

Age is only important if it involves anyone under the legal age of 18 or a redundantly large age gap like 40 plus years or something with someone trying to take advantage of either the older or younger person. You two arent even 10 years apart. So your "age gap" youre worried about is literally nothing to most people. The only thing that should matter to you Both is what your hearts say. And if your hearts say youre happy together and want to spend your lives together, thats all that matters. Love isnt about age, its about two hearts becoming one. And all the other trivial things like gender, age, race, religion, country of birth and all the rest are inconsequential and meaningless in the grand scale of the design. So long as neither person is trying to manipulate or take advantage of the other because of the age gap, in this kind of situation thats between two consenting adults, the age gap means nothing. As the song says, 'Age Aint Nothin' But A Number.'