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Hassan had grown up in a challenging environment. His father was an alcoholic who often resorted to violence at home. Hiding in the closet with his younger sister and trembling in fear had been a part of Hassan’s daily routine.
The year Hassan turned ten, his mother could no longer endure his father’s abuse and fled home, leaving her kids behind at home. Consequently, Hassan had to face his father’s violent outbursts, and the boy bravely endured the beatings.
‘If I run away, my sister will be the one to suffer.’
Hassan neither fled nor rejected his father’s violence.
Five years passed, and when Hassan was fifteen, his father started to abuse his younger sister as well.
‘This can’t continue.’
Hassan could bear being hit, but he could not stand to leave his sister in this hellish situation. At fifteen, Hassan resolved to escape this hell with his sister.
“Shh, be quiet.”
Taking advantage of the moment when their father was deeply asleep after drinking, Hassan quietly left the house with his sister. At fifteen, the jobs Hassan could do to support both himself and his sister were severely limited.
“Oppa, I want to paint. I will become a great painter.”...
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