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Throughout my life, I've always been drawn to the ocean, but growing up in a poor family meant I never had the chance to see it firsthand.
In my youth, my father's gambling addiction plunged our family into debt, and he turned to alcohol for solace. When drunk, he would physically abuse my mother. If I hadn't alerted the authorities multiple times, my mother's life would have ended much earlier.
However, our fortune eventually ran out.
One night, after finishing my studies at school, I came home to find my mother barely alive on the floor, surrounded by a pool of blood. My father was nowhere in sight.
I informed the police about him, but it seemed as if he had disappeared into thin air, never to be seen again.