Don't know if they coulda found a school to take me.

[He says it as a matter of fact. It was something that L would find out when he read further, anyway, and his having asked that gives Richard a good gauge of exactly how far he's got.]

Parents kicked me out when I was sixteen, anyways.

[That, too, is a simple fact. It hardly bothers him anymore. Looking back on it, he knows why they did it, even if he could never really agree with the route they took.

They'd never expected him to run off to Texas.]

After that, it was just me.