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It was March 11th, 1999. I was twelve years old at the time. I stayed home from school because I wasn't feeling well as my dad stayed home. Me and him stayed home together. We were always very close and I was always his little girl. I watched some tv with him while he was on the couch, but then I decided to lay down in my bed. My mother called me from work asking me where my dad was, I went out into the living room and I thought he was sleeping. So she hung the phone and i layed back down. About an hour later she calls back asking to wake my father up. So i walked out into the living room while i was on the phone with my mother. I called his name four times very loud. He never woke up or even moved. So I started to shake him. I told my mother on the phone he wasn't waking up and I started to panic. I Tried again to shake him realizing he was so cold and stiff. I hung up on my mother and Called 911. They were asking so many questions but I was so young, I couldn't answer them besides saying " I think my father is dead, you need to get here now" At this point, I didn't know what to think. My brother got to my house before the emergency people did and asked me whats going on. I told him and he started flipping. The ambulance got there with me and my brother there. They took my dad to the emergency room. I went to my godmothers house and waited there for my mom or dad to come back home. My mother comes back home and I asked her "where is daddy?". She gave me that look with tears in her eyes as she told me he died. For a long time, I was in denial, Kept thinking my dad was coming back home. It took me well over a year to actually believe he really died. I was into shock and sadness more than anything.

I am twenty one years old, and til this day, I will never forget that day I have found him. It was the most scariest and saddening picture image in my head and the most pain I have ever felt, to lose my best friend and find him on my own.

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