You can follow your heart without deciding who someone is based on their stories.

[Gently, he stops him from stirring and has him look at him.]

I ran away from home six years ago. I lied about my age and name for all that time so I wouldn't be found. I worked any job I could to live including sex work. Every job I had fired me for being unreliable because I was late to work most of the time. I've stolen food and supplies.

[Gaura tilts his head.]

If you judged me based only on those details you'd never know me. Who I am. Why I've done what I have.