I remember the day as vividly as it was yesterday. 685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBbKmxV5xB1
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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. 685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJkeP0NNS6V
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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. 685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAhSes66TLf
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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. 685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnNeNyiQ0rS
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My father and fufosa (uncle) kept going back and forth between home and the vet.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYh5gsBZfot
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The doctors had prescribed some medicines and injections to give her.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8qBK8TNLeY
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"Go pray", Mumma cried out. 685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Qv1vjDBJb
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To say that we were stunned, would be an understatement, she was perfectly fine before we left. 685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtLhU8ZsWCD
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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. 685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHjud8AWNwU
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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*685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyWg3QIpykU
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It felt like an eternity but it had hardly been 2 minutes, as we sat there praying. 685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFn43TDI61k
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Unmistakable sound of wailing made us sprint towards the living room.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwhYxwyEEEP
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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. 685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY0v0fOlfUa
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Buasa and both my cousins shook her, trying to wake her up as they sobbed and screamed.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf8OWOzpn46
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I escaped to the bathroom unable to believe what's happened. 685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡACIkHoOi1d
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Fufosa not being able to handle it, went out, I don't know where. 685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs1xATZliU2
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My father kept on getting calls from the neighbors, asking if everything was alright.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Lnlg56eQs
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Everything was pretty much a blur after that.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuMtJI1T81k
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Things got settled in the evening around 6:30, that's when the house went deadly quiet. 685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgYSzoqGXGv
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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. 685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7wervI36Jm
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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. 685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0FdzSlIai4
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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 pieces685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPcyVEIlT91
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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. 685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe1VuH0BpGi
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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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTz2FtyyfJu
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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." 685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRZkzv4HNsv
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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. 685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyEzSEoziRM
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Love and strength to all those brave people who have loved and lost. 685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFD8bvRKWVP
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