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Arpena Janaga was 24 when she died.

To many of her friends and family, she's still frozen as she was in 2008.

A daredevil motorcycle rider, a poet, a singer, a software engineer with a whole career, the whole life ahead of her.

Even today when we had to make a tough decision, we would be like,

what would I would not do? What would think what would she say to her two closest friends

Sri and Lelitha Arpina is still very much present

She is still part of our lives every single day.

Every single day I don't think me or Chener forget about her.

Even Chechnya dream about her every month that she's still alive and she constantly dreams about her.

Yes, every few months I get a dream like she comes back saying, I was just at this place

and nothing happened to me, I'm absolutely fine.

Yeah.

And this is the dream I've been having for all these few years and I tell her that she will come back I feel like

that that's how I wake up so she's there. I know it's been so many years, but she's there.

Sri and Lelitha prefer not to dwell on the grief.

Instead, they remember Arpena as she was when she first moved into her

apartment at the valley view. Back then, she sounded happier than they'd ever

heard her. Arpana was newly independent,

and that little budget apartment complex

on the outskirts of Redmond, Washington, was heaven on earth.

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