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One day, not all that long ago, a kid named Cam was asked what he thought about his father. Like any other kid, his father hadn't been around since he was a child, he didn't think much of it. He was just as normal, but the way things went maybe could be considered abnormal.

"I guess that I don't really hold a grudge... He had his things, and though I don't understand why he did those things, he must've had something that caused him to do so." Cam replied to the person asking.

To understand where this is coming from, why don't we take a look at what Cam experienced, from a birds eye view of now.

Is that really the case?

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Cam, three years old at the time.

Some time around either midnight, or dawn, Cam heard yelling, screaming, pleading from his parents room. As a curious three year old, he found this to be disturbing, and as curiosity killed the cat, he head towards the room that was just a small hallway away. Peeking the door like a small swat, Cam's eyes widened.

His mom, running around the bed, being chased by his dad, who was too drunk to understand what was going on.

Cam, knowing good from bad, ran straight into the room, without any hesitation, and yelled at his dad to stop.

"Daddy stop!" he cried, eyes reddening, "don't hurt mommy!"

"Son leave! Get out Cam!" His mom screamed, frightening Cam away to his room. "Lock the door!"

"Why?" He asked while backing away.

"Go!" was the last thing he remembered happening before he left, seemingly following the orders of his mom.

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Now much of memory is hazy, trauma often gives us a seemingly complete but actually incomplete memory of events that have happened.

While it's unknown whether Cam actually did that, or his mother did something other, what the narrator does slightly remember is Cam actually running away, and locking the door, vigilantly holding the locked doorknob closed while shivering.

Whether that happened or not, could probably be proved, for now, no answer.

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Next thing Cam remembers, his mother comes in the door, bruises on her face.

Cam doesn't remember the conversation other than "Daddy will not be with us anymore..."

He does, however remember, the fact that he didn't know what really transpired that day. He does remember that his dad hurt his mom, and that the trauma is hard to deal with, but for that reason we push on.

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The rest of the years were okay. While his dad was never in his life, it was simple. His first skiing trip happened either this year or the next (narrator doesn't quite know) and life was okay. Not having a dad was okay.

Being a little shaken never hurt anyone.