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2024-10-29 19:42:56"All these years, I thought everything is near to perfection, except for my father's abuse and cheating and my mother leaving us unexpectedly, without even saying a word. I got money, unlimited access to all ladies I want, and gourmet foods. Everything that my father said about my mother is really a lie; I should have listened to her cryptic words all along."
They are sitting by the sand, surrounded by tall palm and coconut trees, as they watch the cargos being unloaded in the port by both the Chinese and Jewish workers alike; their sweats falling down to each cargo.
They are sweating profusely even if the weather is calm and cool. Others are near to fainting, with the exhaustion and dehydration they are experiencing, but cannot afford to succumb to the needs of their physical bodies to lie lifeless in the hardwood constructed by the port.
They are in a ceasefire now, as they are drained by them talking to themselves, nagging each other for days now, on how they
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