They can do that? Wow. Yeah, we don't have anything like that at all.
[He can't help wondering how different his life could have been if they did. His mother didn't really want him, either. She left when he was only just old enough to remember. He never saw her again, but his father did his best to raised Max and his sister to feel wanted, regardless. Still, the abandonment left a mark.]
Do you ever feel, I don't know, weird about it sometimes? That you don't have a mother? I didn't really have one either...
cw: abortion/reproductive choices (futuristic)/absent parent/abandonment
[He can't help wondering how different his life could have been if they did. His mother didn't really want him, either. She left when he was only just old enough to remember. He never saw her again, but his father did his best to raised Max and his sister to feel wanted, regardless. Still, the abandonment left a mark.]
Do you ever feel, I don't know, weird about it sometimes? That you don't have a mother? I didn't really have one either...