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What we brought to remember Claudette.
No singing this time, but I did try to talk as if I was talking to her.
I cried in the end.
I told her about the frog in the well, and how I'd brought the frog for her, but was in fact taking it home again. Same with the purse.
I just hated the idea of something genuinely special either being taken away by someone with no understanding of its meaning, or rotting away.
I bought the purse for her you see, before she died.
So originally she had the jade frog, chocolate coins, real Chinese coins, a lucky purse, tulips and a bottle of Bacardi.
We left a tulip, both types of coin and the Bacardi we poured and then each had a sip of.
Limey took the remainder of the tulips home, the same as the daffodils last year. It's a cliché to say it's what Brianna would have wanted, but she would. She was an enjoy it while you got it person.
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