You don't need to hold onto memories of people like that.

[ She says it plainly, in that level tone she always gives. With the implicit understanding of someone who's seen this kind of scenario before. In fact, when she thinks of her own schoolmates and the current students... It's actually tragic, how so few of them have functional relationships with their families. For many of them, it's their teachers who fill that void, much like Rom's mentor seems to have. ]

People are always afraid of what they can't understand. It's human nature, but they don't even realize they curse they make of themselves when they do something like that.

[ abandoning their child... awful. ]