Because I Once Saw the Light
I said, barely moving my lips as I uttered my final words and breathed my last.
Then, I slipped into eternal slumber.
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[Narrator's POV]
Tiana Browning was dead.
She had died on a bright, sunny afternoon.
The funeral proceedings were very simple, with Marina, Tamara, and Leonard as the only attendants.
Chuck never came. Word was that he got caught stealing and was beaten up so badly that his legs broke, and then, he was thrown under a bridge.
Marina's hair turned gray overnight, and she eventually became very mentally unstable as she hugged Tiana's photo in the garden everywhere while staring blankly at nothing, seemingly lost in thought.