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Nima Died

I came out the school bus and saw my dad’s car waiting for me. I was confused because he doesn’t really pick me up from the school bus. All of a sudden, my sister, Munjeh, got out of the car. She calls me over to go in and, I did. When I enter in the car I see my cousin Alim and my dad. They looked sad. I could see the red in my dad’s eye with dried up tears. I saw my cousin Alim looked as if he were guilty of some crime. My sister, she was crying...she was hurt.

“ What’s wrong” I said curious.

She looked away in shame to show her face.

Then my father began to speak, “ Morlema, you know...people don’t live forever right?”

“Yeah…” I said.

“Morlema, your cousin nima passed away”

My heart crumbled. I felt sorry for myself and tried not to believe him.

“You’re joking right?” I said trying my best to laugh it off.

“You know I wouldn’t joke about something like that Morlema.”

This time I let go and I believed him. My sister started to cry as my father started driving off to Nima’s house where everybody was at that time.

I cried. All I did was cry. I zoned everybody out and just, cried. When we got to the house I saw everyone. They cried. Some of them just sat there, looking into space probably thinking why did this all happen. No one was happy. That whole time.., everyone just felt sorry for one another.

But, I was confused. “How did she pass away?” I thought.

I don’t know how she passed away at all. But, I didn’t really care about that now. To me, it

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