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Please let me out, I will not do it again, please, please, I am scared, I am scared, please, sorry, sorry, sorry, there are demons, rats, cockroaches, ghosts, I will not do it again, I am really scared,Bang, bang, thud, thud... They locked me up in attic without light. I kept banging the door really scared but no one came... Punishment for mistake I had done. they were heartless ; my parents. My mother took a safety pin and pricked me again and again... My hands held tightly, she burnt it with hot spatula straight from gas! I was beaten with iron rod, whipped with belt! One of these repeated for every mistake done! I hated my parents was perpectually scared... One day I ran away someone promised me a job relative saw me back home they beat me black and blue After that I gave up I accepted my fate "what is the maximum anybody can do? beating? After few days pain will go away." I stole money from my house drank liquor, smoked, had girlfriends. I was sad, depressed All I wanted was some love and praise and happiness! They told me it is for your good. We want you to be perfect. Perfection at what cost? For ego gratification and future money? What about my feelings? My happiness? One day after I grew up, I did ask them Why you hurt me again and again? Are you really my parents? How can parents inflict pain their own blood? Where was the love care and compassion gone? Parents are to be epitome of love and guidance, solace for mind, one who ease away childs worries and tensions You never did that for me. You only gave me pain. Now that you are weak and old, shall I give the same treatment to you? I can also find many clumsy reasons like you. Shall I do it? Answer me? ANSWER ME! They were speechless! Didn't know what to say. How can anyone justify such acts.? That day they cried like small babies. I told them, "Don't worry I won't do it. I know how much suffering it brings. I am human and I don't want to sin." Even now all alone, I often cry from inside thinking of helpless kids like me. Date: 8/8/2020 2nd position
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