"Worried about me?" he scoffed and threw up his hands in a gesture to indicate what was around him, "I have never been better. I help children in need, I am building a farm with my own two hands with my own money," because he was smarter than people gave him credit for and knew how to be frugal, but that part was left unspoken. "I may not be living the lavish lifestyle the rest of you are, but I am happy! I spent years trying to amount to something, to be someone mother and father could be proud of, only to be treated like nobody cared before now. And now you care? If you care so much, then why are you just now here? Why have you not written to me or asked after me until now? Where were you?" It was obviously a rhetorical question.

"Kitty has shown me much more compassion in the time that we have spent together than all of you have in the last year. She has shown me kindness, and she has comforted me because my own family could not see fit to tell me I am worthy of love!"