"You gravitate toward people you find pitiable. You always have." And he wasn't going to dig into that heavily. But he remembered what kind of parents he had; it would not surprise him to find out they were the sort to feign hurt in order to guilt him when other forms of control did not work.

Their world was littered with two things in particular when it came to families: orphans and bad parents. Full families and good parents were both rare.