— Daddy, please don’t go… I know you can hear me… Don’t leave me…

Her small shoulders shook, her tears fell onto the black suit of the deceased, and her tiny fingers clung tightly to his sleeve as if she were trying to hold him between life and death.

The people around her were initially confused.

Some looked away, others discreetly wiped their eyes. Many whispered that the girl simply couldn’t accept that she was now an orphan, that she was too young to understand her father would never return.