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"Born at sea, I lost me family at a very young age and spent my childhood on the streets, mostly near the sea ports. The summer I turned thirteen, I stowed away on a merchant ship headed for South America, in a boy's disguise. It was then I knew where I belonged. The sea had become my home. I've only left it once, but I returned, knowing that it would never turn against me. Sadly for that merchant captain, the coastal port we stopped at wasn't friendly. The crew and captain were slaughtered before my eyes. I barely escaped with the ship which had been badly damaged beyond repair, limping across the sea, each day the ship sank lower. I was picked up by a privateer ship from Greece. The captain was sympathetic to my plight and offered to teach me the ropes of pirating. I sailed under the Greek flag for three years before becoming a captain."