I remember the day as vividly as it was yesterday. 352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFHojRgVTi4
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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. 352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrAkUqkesqh
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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. 352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyI9nYnHvDW
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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. 352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTPfeK6LWea
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My father and fufosa (uncle) kept going back and forth between home and the vet.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡavuTI7SfTA
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The doctors had prescribed some medicines and injections to give her.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuxZbx4JF9Y
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"Go pray", Mumma cried out. 352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡln30xUwipM
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To say that we were stunned, would be an understatement, she was perfectly fine before we left. 352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSnQ6N3aGoD
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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. 352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf7A2B9MKmM
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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*352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD4wcjLo9Pm
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It felt like an eternity but it had hardly been 2 minutes, as we sat there praying. 352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyzVH3RVF8L
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Unmistakable sound of wailing made us sprint towards the living room.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKclvw3XyaE
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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. 352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmbvyrZ0CCG
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Buasa and both my cousins shook her, trying to wake her up as they sobbed and screamed.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxbAOvoqXqR
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I escaped to the bathroom unable to believe what's happened. 352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡptpQfvVEJX
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Fufosa not being able to handle it, went out, I don't know where. 352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRwhNYzc1TH
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My father kept on getting calls from the neighbors, asking if everything was alright.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJI1G4S1Lor
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Everything was pretty much a blur after that.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTARrGFLGX9
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Things got settled in the evening around 6:30, that's when the house went deadly quiet. 352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvgC0kzPlGC
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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. 352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVxK2lehvXz
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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. 352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx7y0QBYbzE
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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 pieces352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR7eO9GEJoD
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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. 352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD0plEeQT9O
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSBTrIU3QSH
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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." 352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZyxBHlYEZ
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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. 352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiotMvtS304
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Love and strength to all those brave people who have loved and lost. 352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1vxZP6A9JC
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