One Year Later: Aurora's Case

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One Year Later:
Aurora’s case was never looked into, besides what Josh and I tried to find out.. After a few months, she wasn’t the center of the town's gossip anymore and life carried on the way it was. She didn’t have a ceremony. I suggestion her cremation because of her affliction with graveyards. Aurora is still a huge part of my life, it’s hard for her not to be when I see her in everything. I see her in the stars. I hear her in people’s laughter. I see her in sad smiles, in broken souls. I recognize her in the smell of jasmine and chamomile tea. I am trying my best to make her proud. I go to counselling twice a week- once for sleep therapy, and I’ve completely given up on my coffee addiction.
I now sit in the busy diner, almost taken

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