I remember the day as vividly as it was yesterday. 692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLEmXFwQ05i
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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. 692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwZ0rn720O4
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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. 692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWO2v4ihTDm
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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. 692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5NLJevhKRd
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My father and fufosa (uncle) kept going back and forth between home and the vet.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD32yXacH2V
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The doctors had prescribed some medicines and injections to give her.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkB8Trl8Bnl
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"Go pray", Mumma cried out. 692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiEMZJGJOHC
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To say that we were stunned, would be an understatement, she was perfectly fine before we left. 692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPtyowNPVYR
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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. 692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkHSRg04d47
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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*692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtG2MAU9nS3
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It felt like an eternity but it had hardly been 2 minutes, as we sat there praying. 692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsC698eYZGa
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Unmistakable sound of wailing made us sprint towards the living room.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXdRsAI53kV
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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. 692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfqORx8sUL
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Buasa and both my cousins shook her, trying to wake her up as they sobbed and screamed.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNu2h5CR76O
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I escaped to the bathroom unable to believe what's happened. 692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuuHAF04FuE
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Fufosa not being able to handle it, went out, I don't know where. 692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuvvcFzO9eg
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My father kept on getting calls from the neighbors, asking if everything was alright.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn2aezMjpRO
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Everything was pretty much a blur after that.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ27PiZ5DNQd
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Things got settled in the evening around 6:30, that's when the house went deadly quiet. 692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxRYfYgdSoD
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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. 692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfIocKjIjUv
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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. 692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXqtOok0kdf
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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 pieces692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2vWoZCrQht
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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. 692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNS7qPqtQQn
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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.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPzzgMKXCgO
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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." 692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6eGSlVxsSu
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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. 692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJLAlMHzMpQ
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Love and strength to all those brave people who have loved and lost. 692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGFCIFTMXJW
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