I remember the day as vividly as it was yesterday. 734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3HVDxV2Llp
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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. 734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡObQWIzWET0
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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. 734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjlGzysI23T
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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. 734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQCnSUQZFA
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My father and fufosa (uncle) kept going back and forth between home and the vet.734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeuu8NfqnXU
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The doctors had prescribed some medicines and injections to give her.734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6CrdZXDUBm
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"Go pray", Mumma cried out. 734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡutRawQLlZg
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To say that we were stunned, would be an understatement, she was perfectly fine before we left. 734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXKNqdtOlJ9
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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. 734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPvt5MEJP7L
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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*734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeQti0mn0hY
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It felt like an eternity but it had hardly been 2 minutes, as we sat there praying. 734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO0HhQFr6Ok
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Unmistakable sound of wailing made us sprint towards the living room.734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaHThKngnm8
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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. 734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOw7sH4EXmV
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Buasa and both my cousins shook her, trying to wake her up as they sobbed and screamed.734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9gtscB4nDh
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I escaped to the bathroom unable to believe what's happened. 734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM7RweNvQ6W
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Fufosa not being able to handle it, went out, I don't know where. 734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWjHAM09Lay
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My father kept on getting calls from the neighbors, asking if everything was alright.734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0IId35Sj2P
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Everything was pretty much a blur after that.734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSxY8VLc4zv
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Things got settled in the evening around 6:30, that's when the house went deadly quiet. 734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCJIeCCcSDm
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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. 734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZKNJV2u5AZ
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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. 734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa0UTg3riJa
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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 pieces734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡem0mbqMguZ
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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. 734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlaJ0SydcQ7
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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.734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrtxi3dUx6Q
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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." 734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzZUII4FJJs
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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. 734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡacBgzDLUNs
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Love and strength to all those brave people who have loved and lost. 734Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1WAGB0odlR
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