Hey guys, I’m Annika Sabeen. I grew up in the Arctic.

My last memory of human life was from when I was 10 years old. I remembered my mother carrying me out into this icy landscape. The wind was blasting us with thousands of icy crystals, and I held onto my mother tight, but she let go of me and dropped me on the freezing floor. 

“Mama!”

My mom turned and ignored me. She disappeared, and that was the only memory I had of her. I didn’t even know what her face looked like. The trauma of being abandoned in the Arctic had wasted away what memory I had left, so now all I knew was that my name was Annika Sabeen.

After she abandoned me, I was devastated. But I decided I wasn’t going to go down without a fight. I was determined to survive. I learnt how to make a fire out of the sticks left in the woods nearby. I learnt how to make an igloo to shield myself from the snowstorms. I lived off of seal meat and sometimes even polar bear meat. Life was tough. And boring. Until one fateful day.

I was about 16 years old. I had just returned from fishing, when I noticed that smoke was coming out of my igloo. I felt my heart skip a beat. I hadn’t lit a fire! So how was there any smoke? Was an intruder in my home?

I sprinted as fast as I could and barged in, my spear in hand.

“GET OUT YOU–”

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