His mother died when he was a baby, his father when he was ten. He didn't have any other family to take care of him, so my parents took him in.
[ It's far more complicated than that, as they all recently found out, but it's not her story to share. Besides, all that ultimately matters is that Jace was orphaned as a boy, which is still true regardless of the fact that his father is still very much alive. ]
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His mother died when he was a baby, his father when he was ten. He didn't have any other family to take care of him, so my parents took him in.
[ It's far more complicated than that, as they all recently found out, but it's not her story to share. Besides, all that ultimately matters is that Jace was orphaned as a boy, which is still true regardless of the fact that his father is still very much alive. ]