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When I was young I had dreams, I had ambition. That was quickly beaten out of me by a drunk father and a mother who'd all but given up on life. 
 
 `` You're useless.'' He'd slur at me. 
 
 `` Grow up, you're in your teens now.'' She'd tell me through sobs. 
 
 Early in life I'd taken to flights of fancy, I'd leave my house, take that step off the patio onto the wet grass and imagine myself on the plains of a foreign and hostile planet. My dog grew a second head and un-hitched her lower jaw to show her four rows of teeth. She was truly an alien monster. But she was my alien monster, my only companion and friend in this distant land. 
 
 As I grew these foreign lands and strange friends never left me, in this land I was all powerful, I was the captain of the fastest ship in the galactic sector and had a crew of fine, hard-working men, women and otherwise. Sadly my alien monster friend had perished on a distant land protecting me from an overbearing dictator who had drunk too much at a first contact celebration and become enraged. He'd beaten his subservient queen and then turned his attentions towards my crew and I. Had it not been for my only friend I may not be here right now. I miss her dearly. 
 
 I have n't seen my mother or father in many years, but if they could see me now. They'd know that at least in my mind I'd made something of myself.
