[Oz seems to think that over for a little, but when he speaks again, it's with a little more of his usual gusto.]

If you can learn stuff on your own and make your own decisions and do all of the things that you said you did, I think that's an answer! You were even "born", weren't you? Being created is still a type of birth, I think. So... if there's a place that you came from, there's a place that you can go.