When I was just a little child, I had always fantasized about sailing the seven seas as a swashbuckling pirate, facing insurmountable odds in search of fame and fortune. I always dressed as a pirate every Halloween, I had three, full-grown parrots in my room and I used to wear an eye-patch around the house complete with a deep vocabulary of sailor slang until my mother can't take it any more. Maybe it was because I grew up with a four brothers and we always played pirates versus robots when we w
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