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Collected Item: “Goodbye my friend”

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Goodbye my friend

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text story

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They say losses come in threes but thank god mine came in two as for I wouldn't know how to live with another grueling loss. Everyone is okay everyone is having fun and out of nowhere I receive a text "Gisela died last night." I was stunned I was beside myself how can this happen? It surely couldn't be real I just talked to her yesterday, surely as the day went on the more the news started becoming real, people started posting their goodbyes and the tears started rolling, this was it I would never talk to my friend again. I would do anything just to bring her back and hear her laugh one more time.

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#DEATH
#FRIEND
#GISELA

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Mateusz Bajek

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2020-02
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