*unconsciously mirrors your position, head in hand, as she looks at you* Oh, that's...I'm sorry. That must have been awful.
*wishes it wouldn't seem so strange to suggest even some cordial friendship between you and these people, but suspects an arrangement of that sort would only be more painful for all concerned*
*pensively* I don't know why this life had to happen the way it did for people like you. It's like...these people were your birth parents but they never wanted to give you away. Like you were kidnapped and then ended up with your new family and they didn't know about your birth parents, either. I think I saw that movie on Lifetime once. *reaches out a hand toward you* It's shit but you haven't done anything wrong, Elliott. You have to know that, right?