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My childhood as Ambonese

I was born in 1984 in Ambon, and grew up there. For little me at that time, Ambon is a big city. Before i was teenager i almost never go anywhere in the city without one of my parents because i was too scared to get lost. I was around 13 year old when i was brave enough to take the public transport by my own. I had no choice at that time because the school is no longer walking distance from home, but by public transport. Both of my parents are Ambonese. They got married when they were very young. My mom was born in 1965 while my father 1963, they got married 2 years before i was born so you can figure it out how young my parents were when they married and got the first baby - me (little hint: my mom is only 18 years older than me).  My young parents never have any fix job. With their unfinished school, they can't really got any office work like other parents do. They sold clothes (door to door), my father sometimes helped people to construct the house to win some money, th...