I remember the day as vividly as it was yesterday. 682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7B5glqcNPv
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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. 682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtOQXRBLxWp
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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. 682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXSkcqLVv9p
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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. 682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCX35e3ESc8
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My father and fufosa (uncle) kept going back and forth between home and the vet.682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnmGWr5ZdcI
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The doctors had prescribed some medicines and injections to give her.682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡorhE4fNfuO
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"Go pray", Mumma cried out. 682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1k50tIOpd
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To say that we were stunned, would be an understatement, she was perfectly fine before we left. 682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3K2Vti84dY
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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. 682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy9DfDKVAU6
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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*682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXDf7DbBaNw
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It felt like an eternity but it had hardly been 2 minutes, as we sat there praying. 682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5A9cL6TckH
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Unmistakable sound of wailing made us sprint towards the living room.682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Qk6B8ik5p
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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. 682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXk0A78pi7N
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Buasa and both my cousins shook her, trying to wake her up as they sobbed and screamed.682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3uVdL2EaxP
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I escaped to the bathroom unable to believe what's happened. 682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTnLluElnEn
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Fufosa not being able to handle it, went out, I don't know where. 682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ45q9prSan6
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My father kept on getting calls from the neighbors, asking if everything was alright.682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2NwlzxQFsv
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Everything was pretty much a blur after that.682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBNpJN6Xc7g
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Things got settled in the evening around 6:30, that's when the house went deadly quiet. 682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFomMr0oj81
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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. 682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd9RrynPN9z
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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. 682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsAHPti7Nqp
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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 pieces682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzzuibJiRD1
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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. 682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ4yWEQOJsU
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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.682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAXvCEn9Vws
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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." 682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrcJvYh1I4Z
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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. 682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmJhEJwudkB
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Love and strength to all those brave people who have loved and lost. 682Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxiKf3VsYcg
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