I remember the day as vividly as it was yesterday. 759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4pzYXq5yDB
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The four of us were sitting in front of the Mandir (temple) at home and praying, my cousin's hands shook as she held onto the book of Ganesh Aarti (Indian deity), my other cousin ringing the bell and both me and my sister sat there with folded hands, all of us wishing that she pulls through. 759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6AdKc6gFs
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It was the ninth day of Navaratri, (Navaratri is a Hindu festival that spans nine nights and is celebrated every year. Young girls are invited to the devotees' houses, where they wash their feet as a mark of respect, and then offer food to them) we had just come home after a substantial meal next door, smiling and comparing our inexpensive gifts. 759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTmW6JIu6eR
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We stopped short, our eyes landing on the small bundle of black, white and fawn coloured, barely five months old, floppy, lying on the ground in the living room, breathing heavily. Next to her, my mother and buasa (aunt) sat, injecting her with medicines and slowly dripping water in her mouth. 759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO7JTWq1L2N
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My father and fufosa (uncle) kept going back and forth between home and the vet.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnu9O2r1EdZ
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The doctors had prescribed some medicines and injections to give her.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoQZ3wAhses
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"Go pray", Mumma cried out. 759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ97JYdRkWFm
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To say that we were stunned, would be an understatement, she was perfectly fine before we left. 759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhAM6ZxFKDn
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My cousins had come to stay with us for a few days and they had gotten floppy as a present from one of their close relatives, I remember my cousins being ecstatic over having her as their new family member. 759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOMVjNqnKTY
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"Go", Mumma reminded us again, softly this time. We quickly made our way to the only hope that had left. *GOD*759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8FOawfRJCp
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It felt like an eternity but it had hardly been 2 minutes, as we sat there praying. 759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAq3GiLzjd4
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Unmistakable sound of wailing made us sprint towards the living room.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaLfnyWcPmf
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I can't forget the sight in front of me, for the longest time I'd just look at that spot in the living room and see her body laying there. 759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp0dB4gzQkY
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Buasa and both my cousins shook her, trying to wake her up as they sobbed and screamed.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdvnPdMvS4c
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I escaped to the bathroom unable to believe what's happened. 759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnQSMk9n0B0
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Fufosa not being able to handle it, went out, I don't know where. 759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVRyNrLj2i
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My father kept on getting calls from the neighbors, asking if everything was alright.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiA7tY9h0ZF
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Everything was pretty much a blur after that.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡams8LdkHiG
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Things got settled in the evening around 6:30, that's when the house went deadly quiet. 759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ87HS4IwpMf
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Me and my cousin (the one my age) were sitting on the balcony. I didn't know how to comfort her, so I kept silent, staring at her as she stared at the setting sun. 759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAbHjQNzetp
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"It's Navaratri and all the girls are worshipped today, then why did they take her?" She asked.
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"She'll be happy wherever she goes", she continued on. "Only two months with her but the pain of losing her is unbearable", she finally looked at me, as she whispered with tearful eyes. 759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8RpB5hq6fb
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The next day, when I went out to buy something, I ran into my neighbor and the what they said broke my heart into pieces759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1dznKHXvRe
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"We heard a lot of crying yesterday, I called your father and found out your relatives' dog died, the way everyone was crying, we thought someone passed away." and then he laughed, I was speechless, I just stood there and stared at him, thinking had it been my cousin here instead of me she would've effed him up good but I just left without saying anything. 759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbhpQebONSe
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I can't begin to imagine what my relatives went through that day. It's something not a lot of us can understand until we've experienced it.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaY1hNNLsTR
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Years later after losing another dog of 10 years, my cousin said to me "It's like she took part of my soul with her, I have a hole in my heart now, which only she can fill." 759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy3eCDrzcUA
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Dogs are the greatest gift to humanity, and it's true, when they leave they take a part of our soul with them. 759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYkvQEn5xf1
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Love and strength to all those brave people who have loved and lost. 759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7IERqMd2Xt
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