Maybe she's actually his grandmother, but his real mother died in childbirth, so she took him on as her own and just never told him? He's still young enough not to have questioned it yet.
My second theory: It's a Disney movie. Menopause doesn't exist. I mean... this is a world in which people spend a good portion of their lives existing as anthropomorphic household objects... ;P
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My second theory: It's a Disney movie. Menopause doesn't exist. I mean... this is a world in which people spend a good portion of their lives existing as anthropomorphic household objects... ;P