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going home soon but they never came back. For two
weeks he ate things he found in the street, but in the
course of time, he realized that his family would
never come back. So, he chose to let himself die (it
was actually his only option but that's how he told
me so I respect his decision). He lost his life alone in
this big house, after 1 month of loneliness,
desperately wondering if he was the cause of his
family's departure and why they abandoned him.

As soon as he finished telling me his story, I
understood why he was imprisoned here and why he
could not have died properly and gone to heaven.
The truth was that he didn’t received the attention he
hoped for and had been abandoned. To rest in peace,
I read that a person must have had at least one happy
moment in their life. So, I challenged myself to be
able to give him the attention he had so hoped to
receive and that he could finally leave quietly. We
talked every night for more than two months. One
evening he told me that he had never been happier
than during the time we were talking and that he
finally felt ready. We chatted one last night, talking
about our respective lives, then I said goodbye. I was
at once happy to be able to help him and shocked to
have met him and at the same time disappointed to

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