I was born on the 19th of March 1999. 

I was given birth to a normal family with both my parents present.

It was years after I was given birth that I knew, my family was not a typical family.

On the year 2002 when I was three years old, came a changing point in my life. Thinking back now in the present, my life could've change drastically. It was a vivid memory, I was at a popular amusement park with my mother and my relatives. I got distracted by the beautiful and colorful lights that surrounded me and the adults walked off without noticing that I was lost. I ran around frantically hoping that I would find them somehow but, I was too naive then. I got really tired from running around aimlessly and I stood by a pillar where there was no one around. A kind newlywed couple approached me and asked why was I all alone sitting in a corner crying, I was scared and all I could say was mommy. They brought me to a nearby guard and went looking for my parent. 10 minutes later, my mom found me and took me back with her.

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After that fateful day, I was treated as a thorn by both my parents. Day after day, I was beaten by cloth hangars made of steel. Slapped across the face randomly at any time of the day. Every night, I went to sleep in fear that I would be killed in my sleep. Things like this kept on for years until the first year of high school, when things got better or so I thought. I was always bullied by classmates or the school bully would come for me after school. Things changed after my third year, after I retaliated against those who bullied me. Specifically, I beat one of the bullies until he was half dead, I broke 6 of his teeth and nearly blinded him. Surprise surprise, I was sent to Juvenile Prison after that.