I don't know. Nor do I care to speculate. We did not, therefore it is entirely irrelevant. Such people... They would not be "us" at all.

At any rate, I care not one whit if I was not raised as part of a family.

[Liquid had been defensive and isolated for a long time for that same reason, fearing loseness and what it would represent, fearing developing a need, a weakness. Some weaknesses were worth tolerating, it would seem.]