"I'd say it was shitty of those families to give you up, but... that maybe ain't even true. I've seen enough, heard enough from Ann Marie - some families just AREN'T a fit. sometimes families with fosters will 'tough it out' and keep a kid that doesn't fit with them, and let me tell you, it always ends up harder on everyone in the end. So they bounced you a few times. I know that sucked. But what it DID mean is that you ended up with Jaymes and Tove. If you'd been kept by the Browns, or one of the earlier places? You'd never have found your place here. Maybe not even at the lodge, who knows where you would have popped? Sure, you still would have been Dame Dagmar, but you wouldn't have been Sam King."
"Not trying to say that it wasn't shitty to go through, but you can try to look at the outcome. Gotta go through the gauntlet... or, what's that thing. Like on that forging show. If it doesn't go through the fire, the blade is brittle and will break. Tempering makes it strong. Right?"