[Oh boy. The puzzles were falling into place.]

Ken... I don't think your parents left to be jerks. My own parents had a lot of learning to do while raising me, and I came halfway-assembled, so to speak.

I'm sorry for what you had to go through... but with that fight, maybe they just finally realized what they'd been doing wrong and got really ashamed of themselves. I had plenty of arguments with my parents too, and I'd like to think they were still pretty good to me in the long run.