I remember the day as vividly as it was yesterday. 673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUVqLIRPsMs
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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. 673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡblv9BRnrlF
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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. 673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyAEPBrLoSM
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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. 673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhSXNQ5U2gj
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My father and fufosa (uncle) kept going back and forth between home and the vet.673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyCAq9mfXE9
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The doctors had prescribed some medicines and injections to give her.673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡruIH85DEzy
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"Go pray", Mumma cried out. 673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkkNKTFTRtV
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To say that we were stunned, would be an understatement, she was perfectly fine before we left. 673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1EFCtbGFoA
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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. 673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEsG0DKRAw9
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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*673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡODMXY7YFpJ
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It felt like an eternity but it had hardly been 2 minutes, as we sat there praying. 673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnfqMxX0YzZ
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Unmistakable sound of wailing made us sprint towards the living room.673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8MRRScB5Sn
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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. 673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3TnUXg7Tjn
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Buasa and both my cousins shook her, trying to wake her up as they sobbed and screamed.673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9uobzqWn37
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I escaped to the bathroom unable to believe what's happened. 673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBxpcjf87bQ
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Fufosa not being able to handle it, went out, I don't know where. 673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd5EgM6ZQ7V
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My father kept on getting calls from the neighbors, asking if everything was alright.673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc1hXSHHw0Q
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Everything was pretty much a blur after that.673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS1sud64pjV
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Things got settled in the evening around 6:30, that's when the house went deadly quiet. 673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKrVpBoBfjz
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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. 673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJSHJxR3g2u
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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. 673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlHEM4kMkGx
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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 pieces673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLgNUO3o5zm
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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. 673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVO5FzwUHcR
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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.673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcHgDsZmYqF
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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." 673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbc1QU2F1j0
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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. 673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvLo78K6EXD
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Love and strength to all those brave people who have loved and lost. 673Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtJX9lIRiSu
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