"You guys just lost touch or was it a pointed decision? Not talkin'?" he asks. Since she's given him that much information, he figures it's not information that she wants to keep completely closed off and that asking isn't the end of the world.

He can't imagine that, though. Not with his parents. He knows not everyone is like that, he knows not all parents deserve their children, but he's also pretty sure losing his parents, having them not want to speak to him, that sort of thing might kill him.