(That's true too. Padmé remembers how sad little Anakin had been. She had been struck by how small he was and how young. While she had done what she could to help him, who knows what kind of impact separation has on a child's mind?)

He was a slave, but he never let it bother him or hold him back. I remember he had friends all over his village. I think his personality, in part, stemmed from his mother. But the rest of it was just...him.