"Being adopted is over rated."

There was a knowing smile on her face as she knelt down next to him.

"Families can hold you back from being totally free. Sure if you get a good family they lift you up, make you strong. Support you. But I was adopted and all they did was make me feel like a freak and a burden. It wasn't until I was ten or eleven that someone came along who made me feel like I might have a future worth having."