I escaped with my sister and two brothers on October 2, 1980. We were in a narrow, ten-meter-long boat with forty-eight other people. At about eleven pm, we all got into the boat and headed for the ocean. It took about an hour to get there. When we reached the ocean, a storm came up. It was a small storm, but the boat was small, and it rolled up and down like a roller coaster.

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