Why didn’t anyone ever do that for me? Ask, “Who are you, little boy?” See me not as an experiment, a subject, a specimen, but as a little boy? Why was I only an intellect and not a child?

            I’ll fight for this little girl’s right to be a little girl. I’ll steal her back from the people who stole her life. I’ll be brother, father, protector. I’ll love her. I’ll hug her and laugh with her and find her a mom and dad. I’ll do what no one ever did for me. Why didn’t they? Why didn’t you, Sydney?