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The funeral and utter disrespect!

Author: Sapphire
last update Last Updated: 2024-08-08 21:57:50

Amanda stood stoically and silently as the preacher droned on and on about how we came from dust and to dust we shall all return. Tears slipped down her face in quick succession and her head was bent, but no sound escaped from her.

Even when she watched her mother’s coffin being lowered into the ground, she did not show any outward sign of distress, other than the tears that refused to stop flowing down her cheeks.

The number of people who showed up for the funeral was pitifully small. All in all, there were not up to ten people there in the graveyard as Blair’s coffin was laid into the cold earth.

Derek was noticeably absent, and Amanda could not imagine the disrespect. Her mother had died trying to save his ass, and yet, he could not be bothered to show up to pay his last respects to her?

What sort of an arrogant bastard did something like that? Denise was also absent, which was also very disrespectful because despite the fact that the fucking backstabber had betrayed Amanda’s famil
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Melani Maré-Botha
somehow I feel sorry for Amanda, just hopes. she turns her life around, if that vile Denise did it so could she, she had the worst example of a mother, don't like this new Denise, like she is getting of light for all her evil deeds
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