(Part 3/3) “We named her Sapana because she looked like a dream. She was a beautiful girl, my daughter. All her friends adored her. What news broke, all of her teachers and friends gathered together and cried in one voice. She always came first in class. So small, so little, and snatched away from me. My heart swells in pain every night as I talk to her and ask her how she is. I look at this picture. Sometimes I hang it, and when unbearable, I put it away in the trunk. I remember we took this picture after we brought her back from Kathmandu. I miss her but I have other kids and if I persist like this I will not be able to be there for the ones who are still alive. So I make myself strong. I talk about my troubles with the counselors who come and visit me. But I ask myself, what was her fault? Why could they not tell me her kidneys were bad. I would have saved her. She would be here and I would not be holding this picture.” 

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