I had come from a dysfunctional family, exiled to boarding schools at a punishingly early age, and instead of going to college, I bolted down to the Brooklyn docks and signed on a merchant ship.

我来自一个不幸家庭，在很小的年纪就被送到寄宿学校去读书。

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"We reacted very quickly and tried to prevent these characters from boarding on to the ship, but unfortunately by the time we reacted, some of them had already succeeded and accessed the ship and had even managed to reach the cabin crew area,"

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Some of the passengers and crew were forced to swim for land as the angle of the ship made boarding life boats impossible.

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