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My sister suffers from a rare form of mermaid syndrome and has only seven seconds of memory. In order to take care of her, my mother left the three-month-old me in the countryside. I was admitted to the best high school in the county, but my parents locked me in the basement for two months until I agreed to drop out and go work. On my 19th birthday, I went home with my newly paid salary. Before I walked in, I heard my parents discussing how to sell me 50,000 yuan to an old widower in the next village so that I could buy the latest special medicine for my sister. I couldn't help it any longer and rushed forward excitedly to question. My mother slapped me in the face and said angrily, "How could I have given birth to such a heartless beast like you!" "If I hadn't protected you, how could your sister have been abducted and abused by human traffickers and suffered from such a terrible disease! You owe her all this!" She pushed me out the door indiscriminately. In the middle of the night, I walked around twice outside the community, and when I was about to go back, I was stunned. The surrounding scene was extremely unfamiliar. I finally understood what the doctor said during the physical examination two months ago. "Mermaid syndrome is a genetic disease, and you may get it at any time." I finally forgot about my parents and this family.