According to Charlie and a slew of social workers, Jude has every reason to be pissed off at his mom. She didn't choose to leave, but she did hold him down in a tub.

And he's been pissed, cooking up Hamburger Helper in a trailer with his dad working over for one of his two jobs. He's been pissed at her for not being there, pissed at her for not being normal, but - he isn't either. And what Charlie never got, or never admitted to getting? Everything Jude said in his interviews, everything that got his mom put away? He still believes it.

He wasn't an infant. He let her do it, because it was important to her. She was baptizing him into something important, and whether or not it was real - she believed that. She thought she was being a good mom.

Hanging his head on his shoulders, he shrugs deeper into them. "Just me. My dad uh," it's a weird thing to admit, but he can't see the harm. It's one of the better things about Charlie. "He just signed my birth certificate and did his best after. He can't have kids."