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The person who wrote before me is very true on what teens go through on losing a friend. But she didnt go through it at a yong age did she? Here is a total honest story of what happened to me and how it is so hard to lose a dear friend and how much grief poors into you at the tender age of 15.
A friend of mine who lived here in corsicana and went to school with me and was a great best friend to me moved in the 6th grade. After two years I had frinally talked to her for the first time since she had left. We talked about hanging out and how she wanted to come back here so bad for a visit. Then she told me she was diagnosed with diabetes when she moved and that she was on the pump for it and all sorts of stuff that I already knew because a friend of mine was a diabetic too. In April 2006, Autumn Rose Steinhebel passed away because of acute liver failure which caused me so much pain. I thought that i would never be the same and that I was going to cry forever. It did happen, I CRIED FOREVER, and I still do when I think or write about her just because it's so hard. When she passed away, a few weeks later I tried to committ suicide to get rid of the grief and the anxiety of her being gone. I tried three times and finally stopped. The grief, anxiety, and stress of losing someone is really hard, but never do what I tried first.

A month later, I started writing and it got rid of every bit of grief in my system. I wrote and wrote about things in my life and how everything was so bad and finally, I got published for my poetry. It was astonding and now I say Autumn is the only reason I got published in the first place.
When you have grief of losing someone, then turn around your grief with something that takes you away to a place you've never been. SING, DANCE. SOMETHING that makes you happy. WRITE IT OUT. Don't take it out on yourself. BECAUSE THEY'RE WATCHING YOU. UPSTAIRS.

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