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A note before we start. This episode deals with suicide and it may not be right for all listeners.

From the New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.

Stories of love, loss and redemption. I'm your host, Megna Chacrabardi.

A story about love, a story about love, a story about love and a story about love.

A piece is read by Daisy Edgar Jones. Daisy stars in Normal People, which premieres on Hulu on April 29th.

Don't worry, reads the cover photo of my sister's Facebook page.

Everything is going to be amazing.

The words in neon blue, green and red glow from the screen as a kind of pre-tunutual promise.

A message from beyond.

When I'm feeling stressed, I click on her profile, gaze at that image and take a deep breath.

People leave notes, messages and pictures on her page. They say, I miss you, I love you and I'm thinking about you.

They can't leave flowers, but they do leave animated hearts.

Sometimes they even travel through time by responding to a comment of hers from years before and a certain magic is created.

The conversation extending across a bridge of years, transcending her absence.

The page facilitates a continuation and afterlife.

On Facebook, my sister's words are preserved, frozen like a photograph.

And her photographs remain, too, marking the stages of her young life.

You can view them chronologically, scrolling to see a giggling girl in a pink pategonia fleas, become an 18-year-old model with a disposable camera and a goofy smile.

You can watch her tan legs grow long, her hair become blonder and curled, her freckles scatter into constellations across her nose.

You can see the seed of rebellions sprouting into an idea, her green eyes alive and wild.

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