Not broken. Not cold. You experience connection differently — and that's real.
Growing up in that house made you very good at reading rooms. It had a cost.
No right way to be adopted. There's only what's actually true for you.
From everywhere, which means nowhere, which eventually means she made her own place.
Nobody told you the invisible rules. That's not your failure — that's the system.
She transitioned in the 90s. She's seen the movement change. She knows what persists.