...I suppose so.

[David sighed a bit.]

[Hal had once said that those who weren't loved enough as children tended to crave parental approval it all their lives, and look for it in all the wrong places.]

[It was an built-in weakness, one that made them easy to control.]

What do you think would have happened if we'd been brought up by - as part of a real family? Even if it wasn't our blood family.