"No. It wasn't." He went on, "The world didn't seem so bright, you know? How could it be when we knew we were gonna have to spend our whole lives in the dark? And my brothers, they never got me. They tried, but I felt like no one understood me. I used to - I used to talk all the time to my pet turtle, about all the stuff I couldn't tell anyone else."

Yes, he'd had a pet turtle.