I remember the day as vividly as it was yesterday. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk40nfOgIBA
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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. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSPY5mRSJwO
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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. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ25snvyJxaU
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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. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7dr6ykp7Nk
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My father and fufosa (uncle) kept going back and forth between home and the vet.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhZphWCioKn
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The doctors had prescribed some medicines and injections to give her.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjGbYLH7oK3
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"Go pray", Mumma cried out. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwGl4i0uBui
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To say that we were stunned, would be an understatement, she was perfectly fine before we left. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYOwodfyEe4
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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. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgoqLDtz5yz
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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*564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFKrOCUOfKl
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It felt like an eternity but it had hardly been 2 minutes, as we sat there praying. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrV1qcbq4TK
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Unmistakable sound of wailing made us sprint towards the living room.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUfgYgFGwfJ
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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. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC1nMtJDMnj
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Buasa and both my cousins shook her, trying to wake her up as they sobbed and screamed.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgD1dDMyGun
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I escaped to the bathroom unable to believe what's happened. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJzxqgjTbd
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Fufosa not being able to handle it, went out, I don't know where. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡarZzSDmt4w
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My father kept on getting calls from the neighbors, asking if everything was alright.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3FkmmRv24d
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Everything was pretty much a blur after that.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwvXV6xoR5N
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Things got settled in the evening around 6:30, that's when the house went deadly quiet. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj1M2JJBwAt
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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. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw2nzcN57kL
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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. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCkanRjsiUG
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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 pieces564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ90frE1nr5N
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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. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVgoUcdoUSJ
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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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUHgrNmkjAs
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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." 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡftlhOYyK6C
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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. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡodKxHM1zjS
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Love and strength to all those brave people who have loved and lost. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxUCKzucfF4
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