I remember the day as vividly as it was yesterday. 677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡguojmH8lpq
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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. 677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcYsRarf1Uv
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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. 677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDZNT5SS4yL
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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. 677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9L77NvvyT5
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My father and fufosa (uncle) kept going back and forth between home and the vet.677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqGBtBceUhh
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The doctors had prescribed some medicines and injections to give her.677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkadg7KWk6q
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"Go pray", Mumma cried out. 677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ1zVJSHE0o
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To say that we were stunned, would be an understatement, she was perfectly fine before we left. 677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡixzyFh85Wv
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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. 677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8XLbpzxVG
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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*677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlhCmEVbN0z
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It felt like an eternity but it had hardly been 2 minutes, as we sat there praying. 677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXtlMGfXz33
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Unmistakable sound of wailing made us sprint towards the living room.677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbu7SsEoKaq
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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. 677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14O3NjpmIt
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Buasa and both my cousins shook her, trying to wake her up as they sobbed and screamed.677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOteMRFThsP
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I escaped to the bathroom unable to believe what's happened. 677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrrRIbY6mUV
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Fufosa not being able to handle it, went out, I don't know where. 677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4EFXIwtK3B
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My father kept on getting calls from the neighbors, asking if everything was alright.677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnaK02zDvCR
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Everything was pretty much a blur after that.677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuohFzNelQY
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Things got settled in the evening around 6:30, that's when the house went deadly quiet. 677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlCeUzTHsza
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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. 677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTd0Dohw2OE
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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. 677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7wZJSce1bP
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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 pieces677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpF7oyqAh2g
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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. 677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd7AQDT05hw
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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.677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJyiR3B6q5l
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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." 677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhnG5EGum9U
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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. 677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF0ygpU88DD
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Love and strength to all those brave people who have loved and lost. 677Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡktUwDAiL4x
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