[He smiles warmly as he thinks back at them. And feels a bit of an ache at missing them. While he only saw them for the holidays back home, at least he could write or call them. Here, he's cut off from them completely.]

For sure. They're not my birth parents, but that didn't stop them from doing everything right for me. [He wishes he could say the same for the one birth parent of his that he knows about.]

The rest of the world just isn't as ready to accept mutants. At least, where I came from. Here, the unbelievable seems a little more commonplace.