It was such a simple answer, but there it was. His family had been a mess, had been an absolute disaster before he'd been taken away and put into foster care, but he'd had siblings. He'd had people he could look up to, and then he hadn't. And it had been so long ago he might not even know their faces to see them if he ran into them on the street in broad daylight, and he didn't think for a second that they'd know him, either. But for most of his life after then he'd been alone. Now that he wasn't, he was still trying to trust that it might even stay that way, this time.
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It was such a simple answer, but there it was. His family had been a mess, had been an absolute disaster before he'd been taken away and put into foster care, but he'd had siblings. He'd had people he could look up to, and then he hadn't. And it had been so long ago he might not even know their faces to see them if he ran into them on the street in broad daylight, and he didn't think for a second that they'd know him, either. But for most of his life after then he'd been alone. Now that he wasn't, he was still trying to trust that it might even stay that way, this time.