Eulogy For Emily

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He came into her life at the least expected moment. At that time she was broken and into pieces; in only one month her fairy tale kind of life was crashed into a nightmare. In 3 weeks interval she lost her parents. Her dad fell ill while her mother couldn't bear the shock, went into depression and put an end to her life. She was the daddy's lovely girl, naive, innocent and young and her life was taken away in the blink of an eye. This is when he came, her first love... Andrew...
Emily, was the kind of girl who completely gives herself for her love ones, and now her first love, one cannot just imagine how committed she was to him and to their whole relationship. Call her old fashion but she thought of marriage and children from the very first

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