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• It was a Sunday morning and I was enjoying
  my Sunday by watching TV after all I pay monthly
  subscriptions for the cable which I barely get to
  watch during week days due to shortage of time
  and plenty of work. Suddenly the door bell rang
  and I unwillingly got up from my sofa and opened
  the door. There was a girl maybe of 10-12 years
  old standing with a cute smile which was so
  mesmerizing that anyone can forgo all the worries
  after looking at the smiling face of the little
  girl.
• Our football has gone into your house so
  if you can please give it back to us we can
  continue our game. The girl urged for her
  football.
• The voice of the girl was as sweet as
  her smile and it was so sweet that I went down on
  my knees and asked her What is your name,
  princess?
• My name is Tina and by the way Im not
  your princess. The girl was firm on her tone.
• I thought to play along childish with Tina
  and asked her Why cant you be my princess?
• Im the princess of my papa and nobody
  other than him calls me princess as I like being
  addressed by my name only by others. The
  firmness grew a bit stronger so I thought to
  change the topic and asked her. You are a girl
  and Ive barely seen girls playing football.

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• I love football and it is my favorite
  game. Tinas smile was back at its place.
• Ok, but why not dolls as all the girls
  love playing with dolls and the doll house. I
  asked Tina.
• I dont know but I love football and it is
  my favorite game. Tina repeated.
• Her statement got me laughing the way she
  said I dont know and kept on repeating her love
  for her favorite game.
• I liked the conversation and I thought to
  continue it so I asked her Ive never seen you
  before here so where do you stay?
• We have recently shifted here and I stay
  in the next house. She said.
• Oh, you are my neighbor, I did not know
  about it. It raised my inquisitiveness.
• Yes, now can you please give my
  football back as I barely have enough time left
  to play. Tina forcefully tried to enter my house
  for seeking her football. I allowed her and she
  straight way went towards the back side of my
  house and I followed her.
• Tina, today is Sunday and your school
  must be closed today so why you have only little
  time to play? I generally enquired for the sake
  of continuation of our lovely conversation.
• Doctor has advised me to play for only
  half an hour every day and you wasted my five
  minutes. She picked up her football and went
  toward the exit of my house.
• The word doctor pinched me a bit and out
  of curiosity I asked her, Tina why will doctor
  say this and restrict you to play for only half
  an hour?

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• The doctor has said Im suffering from
  cancer and I need to take only rest. She ran out
  of my house by leaving me standstill. I was
  wondering about the innocence of the child who
  barely knows the consequences of the disease
  which she is suffering from. The way she depicted
  her story of disease it may be light for her but
  it was very tough for matured ones like us to
  digest.
• I came out of my house and decided to
  visit her house and meet her parents.
• Hello, can I come in? I asked for the
  permission, the door was open and a gentleman was
  sitting with a lady so I presumed them to be the
  parents of Tina.
• My name is Akash and Im your neighbor,
  it seems you people have recently shifted. I
  tried to start a conversation with a formal
  introduction. Both of them got from their seat
  and greeted me back.
• Please come in, Yes we have recently
  shifted. They offered me to seat and a formal
  conversation started between all three of us
  about our family and background. But the purpose
  of my visit was something else, to know more
  about that innocent kid.
• I interrupted our normal conversation
  and tried to put my question straight in front of
  them Tina came to my house as she got her
  football in my house by mistake. She said that
  she is suffering from cancer.

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• There was a silence in the room for a
  while but the silence did not lasted for too long
  as Tina came in running with her football in her
  hand Can I play for few more minutes as Ive got
  few new friends here?
• I looked towards her parents who looked
  helpless and I felt guilty for asking this
  question, so I thought that leaving would be a
  better option so I asked them I think I should
  leave and Im sorry as I dont think it was a
  right question to ask. I got up from my seat and
  turned towards the door.
• Wait, you dont need to be sorry as it
  barely changes the hardcore reality and it is
  true that our daughter is suffering from cancer
  and that too it is a last stage. The main purpose
  of shifting to this city was her medical
  treatment as she needs better treatment for her
  survival. Her father narrated the entire story
  that the chances of her survival are very less
  but they are leaving no stone unturned for her
  survival.
• Sunday passed by and I got into my
  normal routine of leaving early morning for
  office and returning back home quite late in the
  night. Another Sunday came in and I was just
  standing out of my house watching my so called
  princess playing her favorite game with her new
  friends. I waved her and she waved me back, it
  was a strange relationship which got established
  between both us after our first meeting. I was
  just wondering about the kind of mental trauma
  her parents must be going through after knowing
  that their daughter might say a final good bye
  any day.

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• Another Sunday arrived and I eagerly went
  out to watch my so called princess playing but
  strangely she was not playing that day. I stood
  there for some time with a  hope of her arrival
  in some time but she did not came to play that
  day.
• I went to her out of curiosity just to
  know her wellbeing, but the door was locked from
  outside. The locked door increased my anxiety and
  I started enquiring about my princess, finally I
  got to know that my princess has got admitted in
  a nearby hospital. I went straight to hospital
  and the while I was going to the hospital there
  was only one question which was haunting me all
  the time and that was I barely know her and her
  family, will it be ok visiting her ?
• I entered the hospital and fortunately I
  did not happen to enquire much about her in the
  hospital as I found her father standing in the
  cash counter.
• Hello, how are you? I asked her father.
• Akash, how come you in the hospital I
  hope everything is all right with you? Her
  father asked me back.
• Im sorry but I came here to see Tina as
  I got to know that she got admitted in the
  hospital. I softly answered him.
• Oh, thats great please come and it is
  good that you came in as in todays world people
  barely think about others so do not be sorry for
  it. After all Tina considers you as her family
  she calls you neighbor uncle. He said and it
  gave me a huge sigh of relief as I was completely
  blank at that point and I barely know her and her
  parents completely.

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• Hello Princess, what are you doing here,
  I was waiting for you at the play area so that we
  can waive each other. I held her hand as the
  sight of numerous tubes and pipes in the room
  was painful for me to watch.
• Doctor has asked me to stay here for few
  days and after that Ill be back on my feet and
  this time we both will play together. Tina
  replied me back.
• That is so very wonderful, but dont you
  miss your favorite game? I asked her.
• I miss my favorite game very badly but
  doctors and mummy papa all of them has asked me
  to stay for few days. She was about to cry but I
  tried to console her by saying that It is so
  very amazing that Tina will be back playing her
  favorite game in few days time, but since you
  love football and now when doctors and mummy papa
  have asked you take rest so meanwhile you can
  enjoy reading sports magazine which based on your
  favorite game. This magazine tells you the trick
  as well for playing nicely.
• I handed over a sports magazine to Tina
  which I bought while coming to meet her as I was
  not having any clue so as to what should I take
  along for her. She was happy, days turned to
  weeks and weeks turned into months, her health
  condition started declining but every Sunday I
  use to visit her and we use to talk lots about
  football and every time I use to get a new sports
  magazine for her with a promise that she would
  finish the entire magazine and we both would
  discuss about it in coming Sunday.

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• One day I was being asked to visit an official
  offsite due to which I missed few Sundays
  visiting my so called princess. Unfortunately
  those days were not equipped with todays mobile
  phone and video calls, the conversation over the
  calls during those days were very minimal. I was
  completely unaware about the happening of Tinas
  health condition and my stay went a bit longer
  than expected.
• I returned back from my official tour and while
  returning back I was very much eager to know
  about Tinas condition so instead of going to my
  house I decided to visit her house. The moment I
  entered the house the scene was not at all
  desirable. There were few flowers kept in front
  of the photograph, now the smile of my princess
  was being framed as her survival in this painful
  world ended.
• She was looking for you during her last days,
  and there is a note along with a magazine which
  she asked me to give you back. Her father handed
  me all the magazines which I got for her during
  my visiting days. I took the magazine and the
  note and left for my home without saying a single
  word as I was completely speechless.

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• I sat on the sofa and was just turning
  the pages of magazine to recollect the memories
  which I shared with my princess. There was a
  magazine in which there was a bookmark so I
  turned directly to that page where in there was a
  small note. I picked up the note and started
  reading, it says.
• Dear Uncle, Im extremely sorry that I
  leaving this magazine unfinished as now Im
  unable to read properly, I hope you will
  understand. TINA. I took the bookmark out of the
  magazine and decided to keep it as my lifelong
  possession , I was completely numb after reading
  this letter and all of sudden tears rolled out of
  my eyes.
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