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Bruna lets out a painful cry and starts shaking her dad hysterically.

Our dad, to be precise. Our dead dad. A dad I wanted to patch up things with. A dad I wanted to give a chance to make up for all the years he was not around. A dad I wanted to spend time with together in his last days. That dad is lying there, lifeless. Dead. 

And there's nothing I can do about it but stare, my feet stuck on the ground. I can't move. I can't believe he's dead. Dead before being the father I wanted him to be. Dead before making up for all those lost years. Dead when I needed him the most.

Bruna stops shaking his body and runs to me. She knocks me with an emotional embrace and sobs uncontrollably on my shoulder. 

"He's dea