I remember the day as vividly as it was yesterday. 709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeW7fVrdPVF
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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. 709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzwfaOhCbq1
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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. 709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWI5B6W5MuZ
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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. 709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA88imbGATA
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My father and fufosa (uncle) kept going back and forth between home and the vet.709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Y8xJ0yu2F
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The doctors had prescribed some medicines and injections to give her.709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOh5ekbhaLd
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"Go pray", Mumma cried out. 709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK1aWmiSPly
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To say that we were stunned, would be an understatement, she was perfectly fine before we left. 709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZBkSpW0PB
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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. 709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyiRxrXFGvk
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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*709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5WEA0HU3Ew
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It felt like an eternity but it had hardly been 2 minutes, as we sat there praying. 709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjmqPnweK3i
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Unmistakable sound of wailing made us sprint towards the living room.709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLLAv15ANPa
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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. 709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ7krKxHkOm
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Buasa and both my cousins shook her, trying to wake her up as they sobbed and screamed.709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLErOUIcEfZ
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I escaped to the bathroom unable to believe what's happened. 709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5OSpilWuie
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Fufosa not being able to handle it, went out, I don't know where. 709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBH538FXk3W
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My father kept on getting calls from the neighbors, asking if everything was alright.709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ29iUr6Frrs
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Everything was pretty much a blur after that.709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtm8A9HZGVG
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Things got settled in the evening around 6:30, that's when the house went deadly quiet. 709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNzVnaVbySH
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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. 709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡljA4rPKy06
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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. 709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvSo1CdjLA5
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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 pieces709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2xdwhcFVeC
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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. 709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9xc5dEKdsj
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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.709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXRZa7u2aH4
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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." 709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyVRgSGTSc0
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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. 709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNDMULQ2l3
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Love and strength to all those brave people who have loved and lost. 709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrwhdYT6xCQ
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