"So why did you run away?" I still wasn't totally sure about the kid. I'd keep my eye on him. However the fact he was willing to go this far for us to accept him. Well, my dad had a saying 'if someone's running away to find a real family chances are something is poisoning the well back home'  he never told me what it might, he didn't need to, we wasn't no city folk, we all knew if you left family there was always,<span style="font-style: italic">always</span>a story to it.